4Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
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That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Commentary
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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