be swallowed up of life, 2 Cor. v. 24. For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears, vii. 5. e Which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory, Eph. i. 14. See also on Matt. xxii. ver. 30. clause 1.

Τῇ γὰρ ἐλπίδι ἐσώθημεν· ἐλπὶς δὲ βλε πομένη, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐλπίς· ὃ γὰρ βλέπει τις, τί καὶ ἐλπίζει ;

a For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

VER. 27.

Ὁ δὲ ἐρευνῶν τὰς καρδίας, οἶδε τί τὸ φρόνημα του πνεύματος, ὅτι κατὰ Θεὸν ἐντυγχάνει ὑπὲρ ἁγίων.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, * because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. • Or, that.

a See on Matt. ix. ver. 4. clause 1.

VER. 28.

Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι τοῖς ἀγαπῶσι τὸν Θεὸν πάντα συνεργεῖ εἰς ἀγαθὸν, τοῖς κατὰ πρόθεσιν κλητοῖς οὖσιν.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Therefore let no man glory in men: for all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's, 1 Cor. iii. 21-23. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, 2 Cor. iv. 15-18. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby, Heb. xii. 11. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect

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and entire, wanting nothing, James i. 2-4.

b See on chap. v. ver. 5. clause 2. See on chap. i. ver. 6.clause 2.

VER. 29.

Οτι οὓς προέγνω, καὶ προώρισε συμ μόρφους τῆς εἰκόνος τοῦ υιοῦ αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν πρωτότοκον ἐν πολλοῖς ἀδελ φοῖς.

For whom he did foreknow, he alsoe did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

a God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the Scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Rom. xi. 2. Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of

the womb I sanctified thee; and I ortions, Jer. i. 5. Élect according to dained thee a prophet unto the nathe foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied, 1 Pet. i. 2.

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Eph. i. 4, 5. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will; That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, 11, 12. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, 2 Tim. i. 9.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof, Rom. xiii. 14. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world, John xvii. 16. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth, 19. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as

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ROM. VIII. 37-39.-1x. 1, 2.

b Without me ye can do nothing, John xv. 5.

VER. 38.

Πέπεισμαι γὰρ ὅτι οὔτε θάνατος, οὔτε ζωὴ, οὔτε ἄγγελοι, οὔτε ἀρχαί, οὔτε δυνάμεις, οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα, οὔτε μέλλοντα,

b

For I am persuaded, that a neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come.

a For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's, Rom. xiv. 8. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's, 1 Cor. iii. 22. According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death, Phil. i. 20.

b For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, Eph. vi. 12. For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him, Col. i. 16. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it, ii. 15.

VER. 39.

Οὔτε ὕψωμα, οὔτε βάθος, οὔτέ τις κτίσις ἑτέρα δυνήσεται ἡμᾶς χωρίσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Θεοῦ, τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.

a Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ

Jesus our Lord.

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λειπτος ὀδύνη τῇ καρδίᾳ μου.
Οτι λύπη μας ἐστὶ μεγάλη, καὶ ἐδιά-

a That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

a Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved, Rom. x. 1. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law, Psal. cxix. 136. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jer. ix. 1. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive, xiii. 17. Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city, Lam. ii. 12. Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city, iii. 48-51. And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Je rusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and that cry, for all the abominations that ix. 4. And when he was come near, be done in the midst thereof, Ezek. he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the

a See on John x. ver. 28. clauses things which belong unto thy peace!

2, 3.

CHAP. IX.-VER. 1. ̓Αλήθειαν λέγω ἐν Χριστῷ, οὐ ψεύδομαι, (συμμαρτυρούσης μα τῆς συνειδήσεώς μου ἐν Πνεύματι ἁγίῳ,)

but now they are hid from thine eyes, Luke xix. 41, 42. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, Phil. iii. 18.

a See on chap. viii. ver. 23. clause 3.
b And when Moses was gone into
the tabernacle of the congregation
to speak with him, then he heard
the voice of one speaking unto him
from off the mercy seat that was upon
the ark of testimony, from between
the two cherubims: and he spake
unto him, Numb. vii. 8, 9. And she'
named the child I-chabod, saying,
The glory is departed from Israel:
(because the ark of God was taken,
and because of her father-in-law and
her husband :) 1 Sam. iv. 21. So that
the priests could not stand to minister
because of the cloud: for the glory of
the LORD had filled the house of the
LORD, 1 Kings viii. 11.

See on Matt. i. ver. 1. clause 3.
d See on John i. ver. 17. clause 1.
e See on Matt. xxi. ver. 33. clause 2.
fSee on Luke i. ver. 44.

VER. 5.

Ων οἱ πατέρες, καὶ ἐξ ὧν ὁ Χριστὸς, τὸ κατὰ σάρκα, ὁ ὢν ἐπὶ πάντων Θεὸς εὐλογητὸς εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ̓Αμήν.

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, b who is over all, God blessed for ever. d Amen.

* See on chap. i. ver. 3. clause 3.

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b See on John i. ver. 1. clause 4. and v. ver. 19. clause 2.

See on chap. i. ver. 25. clause 4. d See on Matt. vi. ver. 13. clause 4.

VER. 6.

Οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι ἐκπέπτωκεν ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ· οὐ γὰρ πάντες οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ, οὗτοι Ἰσραήλ.

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. a For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel.

a See on chap. ii. ver. 28.
VER. 7.

Οὐδ ̓ ὅτι εἰσὶ σπέρμα Αβραάμ, πάντες τέκνα· ἀλλ ̓ ἐν Ἰσαὰκ κληθήσεταί σα σπέρμα

a Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

a See on Matt. iii. ver. 9. clause 2. b And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called, Gen. xxi. 12.

VER. 8.

Τουτέστιν, οὐ τὰ τέκνα τῆς σαρκὸς, ταῦτα τέκνα τοῦ Θεοῦ· ἀλλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, λογίζεται εἰς σπέρμα.

That is, a They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise bare counted for the seed.

a See on Matt. iii. ver. 9. clause 2.

b A seed shall serve him ; it shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this, Psal. xxii. 30, 31. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, John i. 13. For ye are all the chil dren of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed,