| Romans 9:4
| Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the promises:
| \f + \fr 9:4-5\ft To whom belongeth the adoption of children. Literally, whose is the adoption. He mentions the favours which God had done to his people, the Jews. As, 1. That God had adopted them for his elect people. 2. That he had glorified them with so many miracles. 3. That he had made a particular covenant and alliance with them. 4. Given them a written law. 5. Prescribed the manner they should worship him. 6. Promises of divers blessings. 7. Who are from the Fathers. Literally, whose are the Fathers; that is who descended from the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc. 8. Of whose race, that is of the family of David, Jesus Christ, as man, was born. --- Who is over all things God,{ Ver. 5. Qui est super omnes Deus benedictus in saecula. Amen. o on ep ponton theos eulogetos eis tous aionas, Amen.|} blessed for ever. Amen. Though the apostles did not often, in express words, call Jesus Christ the God, lest the heathens, when they were not sufficiently instructed, should imagine that there were many gods, (as divers of the fathers take notice) yet here, and in several places, they clearly delivered the divinity of our Saviour, Christ. The Socinians might here observe, that the apostle calls him the God blessed for ever, and with the Greek article. (Witham)
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