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Romans 9:29-33

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9:29 Just 1  as Isaiah predicted,

If the Lord of armies 2  had not left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

and we would have resembled Gomorrah.” 3 

Israel’s Rejection Culpable

9:30 What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith, 9:31 but Israel even though pursuing 4  a law of righteousness 5  did not attain it. 6  9:32 Why not? Because they pursued 7  it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. 8  They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 9  9:33 just as it is written,

Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble

and a rock that will make them fall, 10 

yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame. 11 

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[9:29]  1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[9:29]  2 tn Traditionally, “Lord of hosts”; Grk “Lord Sabaoth,” which means “Lord of the [heavenly] armies,” sometimes translated more generally as “Lord Almighty.”

[9:29]  3 sn A quotation from Isa 1:9.

[9:31]  4 tn Or “who pursued.” The participle could be taken adverbially or adjectivally.

[9:31]  5 tn Or “a legal righteousness,” that is, a righteousness based on law. This translation would treat the genitive δικαιοσύνης (dikaiosunh") as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-91).

[9:31]  6 tn Grk “has not attained unto the law.”

[9:32]  7 tn Grk “Why? Because not by faith but as though by works.” The verb (“they pursued [it]”) is to be supplied from the preceding verse for the sake of English style; yet a certain literary power is seen in Paul’s laconic style.

[9:32]  8 tc Most mss, especially the later ones (א2 D Ψ 33 Ï sy), read νόμου (nomou, “of the law”) here, echoing Paul’s usage in Rom 3:20, 28 and elsewhere. The qualifying phrase is lacking in א* A B F G 6 629 630 1739 1881 pc lat co. The longer reading thus is weaker externally and internally, being motivated apparently by a need to clarify.

[9:32]  9 tn Grk “the stone of stumbling.”

[9:33]  10 tn Grk “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”

[9:33]  11 sn A quotation from Isa 28:16; 8:14.



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