...corruption, when hope ceases, must dismiss the creature from the vanity it was subjected to. ix. 3. "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." This wish St. Paul never could have formed, had he considered it as including hatred of...

...bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart: For 1 could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.'' Now to find any countenance given to the doctrine in thi? passage, it is necessary to...

...conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed,...from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." Christian hearer, when you were asked, on supposition you were one of the family that was...

...now, O Jehovah, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers ; " Paul's pathetic words, " For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh " — these are familiar examples of the weakness and of the soul-agony which even inspired...

...amidst the solemnities of a final retribution. FOB THE CHBISTIAN DICGlPtl. ON ROMANS ix. 3. " For / could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." This clause has been considered of peculiar difficult v ; but this difficulty, I am convinced,...

...and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel;" "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh ; " " Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations,...

...Jewish brethren in terms of the warmest affection and respect. " I say the truth in Christ Jesus ; I lie not ; my conscience also bearing me witness...from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the fleah> who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenant*, and...

...the Gentiles, the undying enthusiasm of his Jewish heart broke forth in such utterance as this : " I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh ! " Thus, in the words of his most successful biographers,* " the Roman power did not press...

...superintending, and providing for them. The other passage is Rom. ix. 1 — 3, / say the truth in Christ ; Hie not ; my conscience also bearing me witness in the...I apprehend, the Apostle says no such thing. For, In the first place, the declaration in the Greek is not I could wish, but / wished : not jju^oipujv,...

...Jesus; I lie not; my conscience also bearing me witaeu in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heavineM and continual sorrow in my heart : for I could wish...from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to uitom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,...