Sorrow (λυπη). Because the Jews were rejecting Christ the Messiah. "We may compare the grief of a Jew writing after the fall of Je…

Great heaviness. Great grief.

Continual sorrow. The word rendered continual here must be taken in a popular sense…

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow…

The apostle begins on a personal note, expre ing, like the prophets of old, the burden of his soul over the condition of the Jews. Since he has lef…

That I have great sorrow, etc. He skillfully manages to cut his sentence short, without yet expressing what he was going to say, for it wa…

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my
heart. This is the thing he appeals …

Being about to discu the rejection of the Jews and the calling of the Gentiles, and to show that this all aligns with the sovereign electing love o…

1. Having shown the need and power of grace, the Apostle begins to discu the origin of grace, asking whether it is conferred solely by God’s…