Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
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Gill's Exposition
Neither because they are the seed of Abraham,.... The Jews highly valued themselves, upon being the natural seed of Abraham; and fancied, upon this account, that they were children, which the apostle…
Barnes' Notes
Not as though ... - Not as though the promise of God had entirely failed. Though I grieve thus Rom 9:2-3, though I am deeply apprehensive for the nation, yet I do not affirm that all the nation is to…
Adam Clarke
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect - A Jew might have objected, as in Rom 3:3 : "Is not God bound by his faithfulness to continue the Jews as his peculiar Church and people,…
The apostle, having made his way to that which he had to say, concerning the rejection of the body of his countrymen, with a protestation of his own affection for them and a concession of their…
Cambridge Bible
Limitations of the problem from facts of Divine election
6. Not as though, &c. Here begins a paragraph, and with it the main subject of the rest of this chapter. St Paul has expressed his intense…
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