Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 9:29

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29. And as Esaias said —"hath said" before —that is, probably in an earlier part of his book, namely, :- . Except the Lord of Sabaoth —that is, "The Lord of Hosts": the word is Hebrew, but occurs so in the Epistle of James ( :- ), and has thence become naturalized in our Christian phraseology. had left us a seed —meaning a "remnant"; small at first, but in due time to be a seed of plenty (compare Psalms 22:30 ; Psalms 22:31 ; Isaiah 6:12 ; Isaiah 6:13 ). we had been —"become" as Sodom, &c.—But for this precious seed, the chosen people would have resembled the cities of the plain, both in degeneracy of character and in merited doom. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-30" class="com-number"

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