Romans 9:5 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 9:5

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

6 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

Paul, when writing to the Romans, has explained this very point: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, predestinated unto the Gospel of God, which He had promised by His prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning His Son, who was made to Him of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was predestinated the Son of God with power through the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead of our Lord Jesus Christ."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

To the preceding, St. Paul now adds two more prerogatives. Theirs are the fathers - The patriarchs and holy men of old, yea, the Messiah himself. Who is over all, God blessed forever - The original words imply the self-existent, independent Being, who was, is, and is to come.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Israel is my son, Exod. iv. (2.) And the glory; the ark with the mercy-seat, over which God dwelt between the cherubim--this was the glory of Israel, 1 Sam. iv. The many symbols and tokens of the divine presence and guidance, the cloud, the Shechinah, the distinguishing favours conferred upon them--these were the glory.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Mentioning Christ, he interposes a very great word concerning him, that he is over all, God blessed for ever. Lest the Jews should think meanly of him, because he was of their alliance, he here speaks thus honourably concerning him: and it is a very full proof of the Godhead of Christ; he is not only over all, as Mediator, but he is God blessed for ever.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Whose are the fathers - Who have been honored with so illustrious an ancestry. Who are descended from Abraham, Isaac, etc. On this they highly valued themselves, and in a certain sense not unjustly; compare Mat 3:9. Of whom - Of whose nation. This is placed as the crowning and most exalted privilege, that their nation had given birth to the long-expected Messiah, the hope of the world. As concerning the flesh - So far as his human nature was concerned.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It remains then, that we have here no doxology at all, but a naked statement of fact, that while Christ is "of" the Israelitish nation "as concerning the flesh," He is, in another respect, "God over all, blessed for ever." (In 2Co 11:31 the very Greek phrase which is here rendered "who is," is used in the same sense; and compare Ro 1:25, Greek).

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὧν	hōn	whose [are]	G3739 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πατέρες	pateres	patriarchs	G3962 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξ	ex	from	G1537 →
ὧν	hōn	whom [is]	G3739 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστὸς	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
σάρκα,	sarka	the flesh,	G4561 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ὢν	ōn	is being	G1510 →
ἐπὶ	epi	over	G1909 →
πάντων	pantōn	all	G3956 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
εὐλογητὸς	eulogētos	blessed	G2128 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
αἰῶνας,	aiōnas	ages,	G165 →
ἀμήν.¶	amēn	Amen.	G281 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 10:30
I and the Father are one.”
leads to
- John 14:9
  Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 1:1–2
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- John 17:21–23
  that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- John 5:23
  so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
- John 8:58
  “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
Through
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son…
leads to
- John 17:3
  Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- Luke 24:45
  Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
Through
Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.
leads to
- Habakkuk 2:18
  What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.