...breast of the great apostle, and expressed itself in those memorable words respecting the Jews, ' My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved b.' — ' I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were...

...believed themselves to be ? He tells them the ground of his unfavourable opinion of them, in the text. " Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge....

...flowed to them. And now, after this whole argument, I can most confidently adopt the apostle's words, " Brethren, " my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, " that they might be saved." — The argument can1 Is. ixv. 15. not be done justice to, without bringing forward...

...covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises." Rom. ix. 1 — 4. Again, "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." Rom. x. 1. But it is the very spirit of Christianity, " to do good to them that hate...

...on him shall not be ashamed. The righteousness of faith. CHAP. X. JVb believer shall be confounded. BRETHREN, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge...

...be esteemed a day of small things ; but we feel assured that it will not be despised by any, whose heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved. The friends of this fission will not cease from prayer and alms-giving, until the desire of nations...

...writes. 2. Of these it was that he so affectionately speaks, in the beginning of this chapter; "My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved. For 1 bear them record, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being...

...great pain, and causes much heaviness in their heart. They feel now as St. Paul did, when he said, ' Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.' Sin is no subject of pleiisantry or mocking to the godly person ; for it grieves him...

...that stumbling stone;" he lakes care to annex to this declaration these conciliating expressions : *' Brethren, my heart's desire, and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might he saved ; for I bear them record, that they hare a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge."...

...awaited them ! could he but persuade them to embrace that Saviour, whom they had despised and crucified ! Brethren, my heart's desire, and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. I could wish, that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according...