8Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
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But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, …
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. …
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-12)The apostle here returns to his exhortation to Christians. What he says here (Rom. 15:7) is to the same purport with the former; but the repetition shows how much the apostle’s heart was upon it. “Receive one another into your affection, into your communion, and into your common conversation, as there is occasion.” He had exhorted the strong to receive the weak (Rom. 14:1), here, Receive one anoth…
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