3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here the apostle’s solemn profession of a great concern for the nation and people of the Jews—that he was heartily troubled that so many of them were enemies to the gospel, and out of the way of salvation. For this he had great heaviness and continual sorrow . Such a profession as this was requisite to take off the odium which otherwise he might have contracted by asserting and proving the…
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