Teks -- Romans 9:28 (NET)

9:28 for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”

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Robertson: Rom 9:28 - Finishing it and cutting it short

Finishing it and cutting it short ( suntelōn kai suntemnōn ).

Present active participles and note sun - with each (perfective use of the preposition, finishing completely as in Luk 4:13, cutting off completely or abridging and here only in N.T.) The quotation is from Isa 28:22.

Vincent: Rom 9:28 - Work

For the reading of the A.V. read as Rev. The Lord will execute His word upon the earth , finishing and cutting it short . Difficulty arises on account of the variation in the Greek text and the difference between the reading adopted by the best authorities and the Septuagint, and again on account of the variation of the latter from the Hebrew. The Hebrew reads: Extirpation is decided , flowing with righteousness , for a consumption and decree shall the Lord of hosts make in the midst of all the land . The Rev. adopts the shorter reading of the Septuagint.

Work ( λόγον )

It does not mean work , but word , utterance , doctrine ; not decree , which λόγος never means, though the idea may underlie it. Better reckoning .

Vincent: Rom 9:28 - Finish - cut short

Finish - cut short ( συντελῶν - συντέμνων )

The preposition σύν together signifies summarily ; bringing to an end at the same time. Compare the peculiar word ἐκολοβώθησαν should be shortened , in Mat 24:22, and see note. Omit in righteousness .

Wesley: Rom 9:28 - For he is finishing or cutting short his account

In rigorous justice, will leave but a small remnant. There will be so general a destruction, that but a small number will escape.

JFB: Rom 9:27-29 - Esaias also crieth

"But Isaiah crieth"--an expression denoting a solemn testimony openly borne (Joh 1:15; Joh 7:28, Joh 7:37; Joh 12:44; Act 23:6; Act 24:21).

JFB: Rom 9:27-29 - concerning Israel, Though the number of the children

"sons"

JFB: Rom 9:27-29 - of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a

"the"

JFB: Rom 9:27-29 - remnant

That is, the elect remnant only shall be saved.

JFB: Rom 9:28 - For he will finish the work, and cut

"is finishing the reckoning, and cutting it"

JFB: Rom 9:28 - it short in righteousness; because a short work

"reckoning"

JFB: Rom 9:28 - will the Lord make upon the earth

(Isa 10:22-23), as in the Septuagint. The sense given to these words by the apostle may seem to differ from that intended by the prophet. But the sameness of sentiment in both places will at once appear, if we understand those words of the prophet, "the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness," to mean that while a remnant of Israel should be graciously spared to return from captivity, "the decreed consumption" of the impenitent majority should be "replete with righteousness," or illustriously display God's righteous vengeance against sin. The "short reckoning" seems to mean the speedy completing of His word, both in cutting off the one portion and saving the other.

Clarke: Rom 9:28 - For he will finish the work, and cut it short, etc.

For he will finish the work, and cut it short, etc. - These appear to be forensic terms, and refer to the conclusion of a judicial proceeding; the Lord has tried and found them guilty, and will immediately execute upon them the punishment due to their transgressions.

Calvin: Rom 9:28 - For I will finish and shorten the matter, etc

28.For I will finish and shorten the matter, etc ³¹² Omitting various interpretations, I will state what appears to me to be the real meaning: The Lord will so cut short, and cut off his people, that the residue may seem as it were a consumption, that is, may have the appearance and the vestige of a very great ruin. However, the few who shall remain from the consumption shall be a proof of the work of God’s righteousness, or, what I prefer, shall serve to testify the righteousness of God throughout the world. As word often in Scripture means a thing, the consummated word is put for consumption. Many interpreters have here been grossly mistaken, who have attempted to philosophize with too much refinement; for they have imagined, that the doctrine of the gospel is thus called, because it is, when the ceremonies are cut off, a brief compendium of the law; though the word means on the contrary a consumption. ³¹³ And not only here is an error committed by the translator, but also in Isa 10:22; Isa 28:22; and in Eze 11:13; where it is said, “Ah! ah! Lord God! wilt thou make a completion of the remnant of Israel ?” But the Prophets meant to say, “Wilt thou destroy the very remnant with utter destruction? ” And this has happened through the ambiguity of the Hebrew word. For as the word, כלה , cale, means to finish and to perfect, as well as to consume, this difference has not been sufficiently observed according to the passages in which it occurs.

But Isaiah has not in this instance adopted one word only, but has put down two words, consumption, and termination, or cutting off; so that the affectation of Hebraism in the Greek translator was singularly unseasonable; for to what purpose was it to involve a sentence, in itself clear, in an obscure and figurative language? It may be further added, that Isaiah speaks here hyperbolically; for by consumption he means diminution, such as is wont to be after a remarkable slaughter.

Defender: Rom 9:28 - the work

"Work" here is the Greek logos, usually rendered "word," and never translated elsewhere as "work." Evidently Paul's intent here is to stress that God's word concerning both Jew and Gentile will be accomplished quickly. The whole history of the world is brief in light of eternity to come."

TSK: Rom 9:28 - work // and cut // in righteousness

work : or, account

and cut : Isa 28:22, Isa 30:12-14; Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27; Mat 24:21

in righteousness : Psa 9:8, Psa 65:5; Isa 5:16; Act 17:31; Rev 19:11

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Poole: Rom 9:28

This verse is also found in that forecited place, Isa 10:22,23 . The apostle in this, and in the other citations, follows the Seventy, which was a received translation, and had been in request about three hundred years, though in this, and in other places, it is very different from the Hebrew text. That which God is said to finish, and cut short, is his work; the Greek is logov , which signifies his word, or the account, as some read it. This is brought in as a reason why a remnant only should be saved; because God would shorten the acconnt, or (as we read it) make a short work, in the Jewish World. He would bring a sudden destruction upon that people. Sennacherib and the Assyrians, or Titus Vespasian and the Romans, shall make a complete and speedy conquest of them; few of them shall remain, the greater part being involved, first in infidelity, then in destruction. The apostle makes those few to be a type of God’ s elect among that people, that should be saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

Gill: Rom 9:28 - For he will finish the work // and cut it short in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth

For he will finish the work,.... This passage has some difficulty in it: some, instead of "work", read "account", and suppose it is an allusion to the balancing of accounts, when the remainder is cut off, which commonly is but little; and so regards the small number of the Jews that shall be called and saved, as before: others read it "the word", and differently explain it; some understanding it of the incarnate Word, of his being emptied, and made of no reputation, of his being cut off in a very short time, a few years after he had entered upon his public ministry, and of the few persons converted under it; others of the law, of the cutting off, or abolishing the ceremonial law, perfecting or completing the moral law, and abbreviating it, or reducing it into a short compendium; others of the Gospel, bringing in and revealing a perfect righteousness, for the justification of sinners, which the law could not do; all foreign to the apostle's purpose. Those who think God's work, his strange work is meant, his work of punitive justice he will finish,

and cut it short in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth, when he cut off and destroyed the greater part of the people of the Jews, and saved a remnant, seem to come nearer the mind of the prophet and the apostle's design, in citing this passage. The words as in Isaiah, I would choose to render and explain thus; כליון חרוץ, "the absolute", or "precise degree", so Aben Ezra, interprets it, גזור מהשם, "that which is decreed by God", the decree concerning the salvation of the remnant, שוטף צדקה, "he", i.e. God "shall cause to overflow in righteousness", Isa 10:22, as an overflowing river; that is, he shall abundantly execute it, he shall completely fulfil it, to finish and cut it short in the most righteous manner, consistent with all his divine perfections; כי כלה ונחרצה, "for the decree and that determined", so Aben Ezra, גזרה נגזרת, "the decree decreed" by God, "the Lord God of hosts", עשה, "shall execute", accomplish, make short and full work of it, "in the midst of all the land", Isa 10:23, that is, of Judea: so that the words contain a most strong and invincible reason, why the remnant shall be saved; because God has made an absolute decree, concerning the salvation of it, which he will accomplish in the fullest manner, agreeably to his justice and holiness: the λογος, or "word", the apostle from the prophet speaks of, that should be finished, and cut short and accomplished in righteousness, is the sentence, counsel, or decree, conceived in the divine mind, concerning this matter: hence as the decree of election stands firm and sure, not upon the works of men, but upon the absolute, sovereign, and efficacious will of God; so the salvation of his chosen people is not precarious, but a most sure and certain thing.