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Last week we finished our expanded translation of Romans 8 so we are reading through it. Last time we stopped reading at verse 25.
Expanded Translation Rom 8:26; "And also in the same way the Spirit himself gives a helping hand to our weaknesses: for we do not know how to pray as we should: but the Spirit himself intercedes with groanings too deep for words."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:27; "He (God the Father) who keeps searching the hearts knows what the thinking of the Spirit is, because according to God he makes intercession in behalf of saints (maturing believers)."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:28; "We know in fact that to those who love the God (mature believers), all things work together for the purpose of good to those who are the called ones according to the predetermined plan."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:29;"We know that whom he foreknew, he also foreordained (predestined) conformed ones to the image of his Son, that He would be the firstborn with many brothers."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:30; "And whom he (predestined through the decree), the same ones he also called (elected): and whom he called, the same ones he also justified: and whom he justified, the same ones he also glorified."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:31; "Therefore face to face with these things, to what conclusion are we forced? If the God is for us, who is against us?"
Expanded Translation Rom 8:32; "The God who did not even spare his own Son, but on behalf of all of us he delivered Him over to judgment, how will he not also with him give us the all things."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:33; "Who will bring accusation against God's elect? God is the one who justifies (vindicates)."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:34; "Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one having died, yes rather, having been raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:35; "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation (circumstantial pressure, historical disaster), or anguish (mental pressure), or persecution, or famine, or nakedness (deprivation from necessities), or danger (physical or natural catastrophe), or sword (crime, violence, or military disaster)?"
Expanded Translation Rom 8:36; "As it stands written, For your sake we are being put to death the whole day (the reign of Nero), we have been considered as sheep for slaughter."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:37; "But in spite of all these things we win the supreme victory through Him (God the Father) who loves us."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:38; "So I stand convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers of angels, neither present things nor future things, nor powers (the power of evil organizations)."
Expanded Translation Rom 8:39; "nor height nor depth nor any other created thing shall have the power to separate us from the love of the God (God the Father), which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
This brings us to Romans 9 that explains God's selection and election of the Jewish race that comprises the nation of Israel as the racial species that would be the source of the human gene pool of the biological life of the Seed of the Woman who would be named Jesus who is the promised Messiah.
The outline of Romans 9; verses 1-5 describe the uniqueness of Israel, verse 6 tells us that not all biological Israel is spiritual Israel, verses 7-18 describes the formation of Israel as the Jewish client nation, verses 19-20 explain God's essence and verses 30-33 describe the salvation of the Gentiles.
Rom 9:1; starts with Paul making a three faceted oath that begins with a positive affirmation, "I an telling the truth in Christ." This phrase begins with a present active indicative of the verb "lego" (to speak, to talk, or to communicate).
Here it means to communicate. The present tense is a perfective present that describes a continuation of existing results, a previous fact that is emphasized as a present reality of the existence and the creation of the New Testament scriptures by God the Holy Spirit through the apostles.
The active voice: the apostle Paul produces the action of the verb as a part of his triple oath. The triple oath that references Paul's honor and integrity that he has been demonstrating in many ways. But in addition to his honor and integrity it now includes his emotions.
As a Jew, Paul is emotionally related to the Jews. When he uses this oath it isn't accidental, it is to indicate that everything that he has taught from his genius is nothing compared to his emotional involvement with his people.
We will see that Romans chapters 9,10, and 11 are not only elliptical but because of the grammatical construction that Paul uses that is necessary to indicate one's emotions related to the subject we have some of the more difficult Greek language construction in scripture.
This construction involves many unusual idioms, many hapax legomenas, many phrases and clauses that are related in unusual ways, many unusual uses of post positives and other categories of particles, conjunctions.
The verb "lego" (communicate) is in the indicative mood so it describes verbal action from the viewpoint of reality. "I communicate, I say or I am telling."
Next is the accusative singular direct object from the noun "aletheia" (truth, doctrinal truth or doctrine). "Doctrinal truth" is the best translation here because it is used to describe the content of the Christian belief system as an absolute truth, that is the doctrine or the doctrinal truth of Christianity.
The absence of the definite article makes it anarthrous so it emphasizes the highest quality of the noun that is translated as a part of the positive affirmation of Paul's oath, "I communicate doctrinal truth."
To emphasize that in his emotion he has not become irrational he describes his own relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. In one prepositional phrase he emphasizes the purpose of the Church Age that started with the baptism of the Spirit, and the formation of God's royal family on the day of Pentecost 50 days after Jesus' resurrection and 10 days after His ascension.
The Church Age concludes with the Exit Resurrection or Rapture of the Church when God's royal family is removed from the earth for their protection. He relates all of this to the fact that even though all of us carry burdens and sorrows and face undeserved suffering and many adversities in life we are secure because we are "en Christos" (in Christ) j.
So we have the phrase, "I communicate doctrinal truth in Christ," or "I am communicating doctrine in Christ." In this phrase Paul separates himself from the Old Testament writers or scripture and their gift of prophecy because Paul writes with the Church Age gift of apostleship
Next we have an oath of negative affirmation that also deals with his personal integrity. This is important because when anyone is dealing with God's Word of Truth, with Bible doctrine, with those things that God has used to reveal Himself to mankind, integrity is the order of the day.
"I am not lying" In the Greek it is comprised of two words, the present middle indicative from the verb "pseudomai" (I lie) with the negative "ou" (not) the negative that is used with the indicative mood verb.
"I lie not" or "I am not lying" is a progressive present tense that describes linear action that maintains academic integrity and intellectual honesty. It describes the persistence of honor and integrity in Paul's communication of doctrinal truth.
The middle voice is the indirect middle that emphasizes the agent as producing the action of the verb instead of participating in its results. The indirect middle is very similar to the active voice except that it produces a closer link between the subject and the verb.
The indicative mood plus the negative is for the historical reality that Paul was not only a man of great genius but, unlike many men of great genius, he was able to make the practical application of his genius to reality.
"My conscience testifies with me" this is a genitive absolute. The purpose of the genitive absolute that has a noun, a pronoun, and a participle in the genitive case but not connected grammatically with the rest of the sentence is to separate this affirmation of a co-witness completely from the other two affirmations to make it unique.
The genitive absolute that is used here as the third part of his oath is in Attic Greek not Koine Greek so it is unusual because it actually goes back to the Classical and the Attic Greek construction for a genitive absolute.
The genitive absolute includes a genitive singular from a noun, "suneidesis" (conscience) that is the subject of the participle. With this is the instrumental of association singular from the personal pronoun "ego" (I or me). In the instrumental of association the personal pronoun is translated "with me."
We also have a genitive singular from the definite article "ho" that is used as a possessive pronoun, translated "my" in the English. Next is the genitive singular, present active participle from the compound verb "summartureo" ("sum" = with; "martureo" = to testify, support, or bear witness) so it means to make a joint testimony with or to bear witness with.
Next we have the word "suneidesis" (sun = with; eidesis = know translated conscience) as part of the genitive absolute that means to know as a norm or a standard "in the Holy Spirit." "En" (in) plus the locative singular of "pneuma" (Spirit and "hagios" (Spirit).
The translation of the Attic Greek genitive absolute is "my conscience bearing witness with me," or "my conscience bearing joint testimony with me."
He is saying that everything that he says is compatible with his conscience and it is also compatible with the illuminating ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
The customary present tense of the participle is for what habitually occurs or what may be reasonably expected to occur when one is under the ministry of the Holy Spirit writing scripture. The active voice: Paul as the human writer of the letter to the Romans produces the action of the verb.
The participle is circumstantial for the formation of the canon of New Testament scripture because God the Holy Spirit is the author of scripture using human beings who are properly qualified. The ultimate source of all scripture is God the Holy Spirit.
Expanded Translation Rom 9:1; "I am communicating doctrinal truth (positive affirmation), I am not lying (negative affirmation), my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit."
We see here that Paul's conscience is under the authority of the Holy Spirit for guaranteed accuracy in the communication and writing of scripture.
This triple-compound oath is necessary because what Paul has to say condemns the Jewish unbelievers. It excludes all Jewish unbelievers from eternal life, the unconditional covenants, the future Millennial reign of Messiah and heaven with God.
Paul will express his great sorrow that so many of the Jews, and so many of the nation of Israel will be excluded from eternal salvation because they have rejected Christ as Messiah.
The reality that many Jews are going to the lake of fire because they have rejected Jesus Christ, as savior does not void the unconditional promises made to Abraham, reiterated to Isaac and Jacob, and to David, and Jeremiah. All are part of the same covenant but they are categorically divided into the Abrahamic, Palestinian, Davidic, and New covenant to Israel.
The only way to be associated with these unconditional promises from God is to believe in Adonai Elohim the revealed God of the Old Testament who is Jesus Christ. Believing in Jesus Christ is their only hope.