(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Under the new none need walk in uncertainty. The text does not mean that God is not merciful to all--. BibliographyMeyer, Heinrich. And the correct, moral people of the world see the sins of the religious people, and suspect and despise them. But, says one, “Esau repented.” Yes, but what sort of a repentance was it? Numbers 23:7, Numbers 23:10, Numbers 23:23; Numbers 24:5; Jeremiah 49:10; compare also the original of the citation, Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel. No birthright! Although hatred is not meant to be asserted, yet hatred is the thing that is literally expressed. This sentiment appears to be near akin to that of the heathen philosophers, who held it as a maxim that God could not be angry with any one. 2. He can mould as He pleases, whether to honour or dishonour. "That," Spurgeon replied, "is not my difficulty, madam. Nor does it signify that in that passage (Malachi 1:2-3) the immediate question is of outward circumstances, since these also [in the case of such symbolical persons] are to be viewed as expressions of the wrath of God.' When the Savior was first announced, Genesis 3:15, mankind were divided into two classes, the one to be saved, the other to be lost. Nothing can be more unjustifiable than this method of tampering with and perverting the word of God, and nothing can be more uncalled for. That sin is an evil thing and a bitter, Jacob fully experienced. 46 Thus God preferred Jacob before Esau without respect to the goodness or wickedness of either, attaching good things to the one, and evil to the other, before they were born. “Known unto God are all His works, redemption included, from the beginning of the world.” We are saved, then, “not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace,” etc. I have adverted to it more fully, because, as formerly observed, it brings a palpable charge of falsehood and dishonesty against the inspired writers, representing them as quoting the language of the Holy Spirit in a meaning which He did not intend to convey, and as confirmatory of their own doctrine, when they knew that what they advanced was merely a fanciful accommodation of words. He might will and run intensely and for ever, but it would be of no service. Such persons, then, as deny that the expression, ‘Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated,’ imports literal love of the one and literal hatred of the other, viewing it as an isolated declaration, detached from its connection, and judging of it from their preconceived opinions, as if such a manner of acting were unworthy of God, not only disregard the usual legitimate rules of interpreting language, and employ a most unwarrantable mode of torture in expounding these words, but prove that they misapprehend the whole drift of the Apostle’s argument, and have no discernment of his purpose in introducing this example. 2. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cpc/romans-9.html. How is God’s justice and mercy vindicated in this ordination? But he was forgiving, and his passion quite passed away. He has a perfect right to determine those principles and direct the application of them. So far has he demonstrated what he purposed; he in the next place introduces an objection, and refutes it; μισε͂ ιν properly signifies to hate, nay, to hate greatly. Edom, as a prospective people, was foreseen as persistently Godless, and so divinely hated. "Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament". Hebrews 1:9; Revelation 2:6. Why did God love Jacob? There is a Divine way to reach Divine results. The Prophet likewise declares the dealing of God towards their posterity, but the part here referred to applies to the progenitors themselves. {a} Quicquid dehinc scripturarum est, huius est commentarius. No clearer illustration shows that works had nothing to do with God's choice of whom He would use for His purpose. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/romans-9.html. On the other hand, God did not love Esau. He had made a distinction between children of the same father and mother. You are willing, then come and take the water of life freely. He takes advantage of his brother’s hunger, and gets “the birthright” by what was almost cheating. Numbers 23:7, Numbers 23:10, Numbers 23:23; Numbers 24:5; Jeremiah 49:10; compare also the original of the citation, Malachi 1:2, Malachi 1:3, the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel. The apostle’s argument is irrefragable. They will be punished, as Jacob was, by a retributive justice. 13. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". In Him is no darkness at all. ), Abraham willed that the blessing should be given to Ishmael; Isaac willed that it should be given to Esau; and Esau ran to hunt for venison that it might be regularly conveyed to him. 1905-1909. His conduct in that transaction led him into a maze of troubles, from which through life he was never disentangled. "Commentary on Romans 9:13". Esau lost his birthright; but he sold it himself and for a mess of pottage. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? The expression is intentionally strong as an expression of moral antipathy. As it is written] Malachi is alleged to explain Moses. And the religious people scarcely remember how very inferior they are in many things to the world. Anecdotes.). Certain it is that these Jews were not excluded from preventing grace, for they were called of God by the apostles, yea, and by Christ Himself, and this by means so efficacious that our Saviour affirmeth that even the men of Tyre and Sidon might or would have been converted by them (Matthew 11:21). Before he had that willingness he had an invitation. Had He not determined to save humanity we never could have been saved, and His determination is entirely independent of all “willing and running.”. what is said of the wise men of Teman, Jeremiah 49:7, and the very respectable personage Eliphaz (notwithstanding his error) in the Book of Job. Compare Matthew 6:24; Luke 14:26. In maintaining, then, the doctrine of the sovereignty of God, it is by no means necessary to vindicate the conduct of Jacob towards his brother. Ver. ), IV. Because, if what was prognosticated of the respective posterities of the persons mentioned in the prophecies were the object in view, it would prove that the children of the flesh, as far, at least, as the children of Israel were concerned, were counted for the seed. Those who put their trust in Christ shall be pardoned. My text is a special call to some of you. God does choose us, both because we believe and that we may believe. 2. Here again the sense is so plain that commentators of all classes agree in their interpretations. S. Paul uses the natural language of the Jew, in enforcing an argument based upon Jewish conceptions. Esau may have been saved; salvation was in reach of every Edomite. For, by acting in this manner, God has clearly shown that He is the Sovereign Master in their calling and election, and of their rejection — that He chooses and rejects as seems good to Him any of the sinful race of Adam, all of whom are justly objects of His displeasure, without regarding natural qualities which distinguish them from one another. Through the influence of Ezra and Nehemiah over the kings of Babylon, many families were encouraged to return to the desolated city. Bob, a middle-aged salesman, was on a business trip in another state. It is so in man’s salvation. Romans 9:13. God had demonstrated greater love for Jacob"s descendants in the sense of allowing them to remain a people, and to be allowed to come back and dwell in their homeland (such would not be the case of Esau"s descendants). And Paul wishes to impress him with the fact that no amount of effort on that condition would save him. As the scripture says. Paul said that Gentiles had been excluded from the "covenants of promise" (Ephesians 2:12), but that didn"t mean they were automatically excluded from salvation. We are told of his disinterestedness, frankness, and generosity; while we are reminded that Jacob was a cool, selfish, designing man, who was always watching to take advantage of his brother’s simplicity, and who ungenerously and unjustly robbed his elder brother of the blessing and the birthright. 1. 1879-90. (J. Lyth, D.D. "Commentary on Romans 9:13". The birthright conferred a double inheritance among the Hebrew patriarchs, and likewise pre-eminence, because it was connected with the descent of the Messiah; and they to whom this right belonged were also types of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. John 3:36. positive hatred. Here the question of Esau’s character as an ungodly man is decided by the pen of inspiration long after his death. "Commentary on Romans 9:13". There are some, that by Esau and Jacob do understand their posterity, and not their persons; that say, the love and hatred of God, in the forecited text, doth only or chiefly respect temporal things; God loved Jacob, i.e. agapao. The two questions are entirely distinct, so one answer will not do for both. Simply this--that the original reason of salvation is in God and not in man. And as regards those who are destitute of this revelation, see Romans 2:13-15. Ishmael, Esau, Melchizedek), but not from salvation! I. Jacob deceived his father and his brother, and as a consequence of this, all his life long he suffered from deceit and ill-conduct on the part of those nearest to him. Then how is it with ourselves? Esau was, in a worldly sense, moral, but godless. In its obvious and literal meaning, what is said of Jacob and Esau must be true of all the individuals of the human race before they are born. See Genesis 25:23. And even to his generous brother he acts trickily. He confirms, by a still stronger testimony, how much the heavenly answer, given to Rebecca, availed to his present purpose, that is, that the spiritual condition of both was intimated by the dominion of Jacob and servitude of Esau, and also that Jacob obtained this favor through the kindness of God, and not through his own merit. He bought what he might, probably, have taken by force. On the other hand, others have pushed a truth too far. 4. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Grace does not run in the (J. Morison, D.D. This is opposed to His own most positive and frequent declarations. Which would be the one you loved? In all this he saw the mercy of God rejoicing over judgment. At length Esau was compelled to leave that land, and to yield to Jacob. (b) Let us not be discouraged or look upon ourselves as special objects of God’s wrath. As not to punish the sinner would be a denial of His justice, so to torment the innocent would be a denial of His goodness. 3. Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 9:6-13 The rejection of the Jews by the gospel dispensation, did not break God's promise to the patriarchs. The vessels of the one description were the ‘remnant’ which should be saved, the ‘seed’ which the Lord of Sabbath had left, verses 27, 29. While human goodness is the effect of Divine love and grace, on the contrary, human wickedness is the cause of Divine hatred and abhorrence; and on that account alone can it be the object of the punitive wrath, and condemnatory decree of God.’ (Schaff, in Lange, Romans, p. In his last act he talks to his children with grandeur, and most piously, and shows his faith by charging his sons to bury him in the land of promise. There is a certain likeness between all God’s works. There is not a prayer, nor any recognition of the fatherhood or the sovereignty of the Almighty. Jacob during his life was the object of many special blessings. Compare also Edom in Malachi 1:4, synonymous with Esau in Malachi 1:3; and Israel, Malachi 1:5, synonymous with Jacob, Malachi 1:2. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/romans-9.html. The assertion that God is angry with the wicked every day, is just as level to our apprehension, as the assertion that God loves them that fear Him. The reason God assigns for electing Abraham is given in Genesis 18:18-19 : “I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they will keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment,” etc. The first of these is chosen of God, and invested with the promised blessing; the other is rejected, and that in circumstances, as he points out to us, which plainly show that of the descendants of the patriarchs, God, according to His will and pleasure, would make some, and not others, to be counted to Abraham for a “seed” in a spiritual sense, to be of the children of God. The words here quoted from Malachi expressly relate to Jacob and Esau. What shall we say then? If thou art willing, depend upon it that God is willing. It might be thought that there was a natural reason for preferring the child of Sarah, as being Abraham's true and first wife, both to the child of Hagar, Sarah's maid, and to the children of Keturah, his second wife. “Oh, the Spirit of God has been at work in this man,” that God does treat one man better than another is not very wonderful. But the Apostle’s argument goes to prove that the reverse is the case, — that they are not all Israel who are of Israel. 2. Romans 9:1-13 (English Standard Version) Warning : MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. In one word, so far from willing and running not being required, we must agonise to enter in. Explanation and Commentary of Romans 9:13 A serious conundrum for those that deny the sovereignty of God in choosing who will be saved, this verse must be approached with great care. Nothing, then, is said of Esau here that might not be said of every man who shall finally perish. On this whole matter read verse 22. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/romans-9.html. The promises and threatenings shall be fulfilled. Esau - The descendants of Esau, the Edomites; see Malachi 1:4. In this we observe that he held as lightly the curse denounced against Canaan as he did the blessing promised to Abraham. The Infinite intellect never acts without reason, and Infinite love never acts unkindly. I warn you against the delusion — so dishonorable to the Holy One, the Everlasting Father — so ruinous to all who have surrendered themselves to its influence — so inconsistent with what you read in the book of inspiration — so destructive of that mystery of godliness and of grace which has been made known to us in Jesus Christ.’. (a) Acknowledge that it is no mere chance which has brought it about, but that it is the voice of God calling us to repentance. (J. Lyth, D.D.). He died in faith, Hebrews 11:13,21; and of him the Redeemer Himself has testified that, with Abraham and Isaac, he is now in the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 8:11. "God had made a distinction between children of the same father and different mothers. “The mercy of the Lord is upon them that fear Him.” Mercy is not for them that sin, and fear not; but for them that fear, and sin not. The doctrine of the preceding verses is, that God is perfectly sovereign in the distribution of his favors, that the ground of his selecting one and rejecting another is not their work, but his own good pleasure. It is better to submit to the word of God on this and every other subject, taking it in its obvious import, than to be deterred from doing so on account of consequences from the admission of which we may shrink back. "Commentary on Romans 9:13". As this is the idea meant to be expressed, it is evident that in this case the word hate means to love less, to regard and treat with less favor. Human effort had nothing to do in starting the eternal idea. If there be a God He must be the primordial cause not only of all existence, but of all good throughout His vast and ever-extending universe. Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened.” “He that cometh to Him He will on no account cast out.” Running and willing therefore cannot be dispensed with. Romans 13:9 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ]Romans 13:9, NIV: "The commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not covet,' and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" 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