SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:29
Y como antes dijo Isaías: Si el Seor de los ejrcitos no nos hubiera dejado simiente, como Sodoma habríamos venido a ser, y a Gomorra furamos semejantes.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 9:29
Verse 29. And as Esaias said before] What God designs to do with the Jews at present, because of their obstinacy and rebellion, is similar to what he has done before, to which the same prophet refers, Isa. i. i10: Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah: i.e. had not God, who commands and overrules all the powers in heaven and earth, in mercy preserved a very small remnant, to keep up the name and being of the nation, it had been quite cut off and extinct, as Sodom and Gomorrah were. Thus we learn that it is no new thing with God to abandon the greatest part of the Jewish nation, when corrupt, and to confine his favour and blessing to a righteous, believing few. Instead of remnant, dyr sarid, both the Septuagint and the apostle have sperma, a seed, intimating that there were left just enough of the righteous to be a seed for a future harvest of true believers. So the godly were not destroyed from the land; some remained, and the harvest was in the days of the apostles.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 29. And as Esaias said before , etc..] In the beginning of his prophecy, in ( Isaiah 1:9). Except the Lord of sabaoth had left us a seed ; the title and character the great God goes by here, is Lord of sabaoth, that is, of hosts, or armies; the Septuagint often leave the word untranslated, as here and elsewhere, as in ( 1 Samuel 1:11 17:45). He is Lord of the hosts of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, whom he brings forth by number, calls by their names, and them to praise him; of the angels, the multitude of the heavenly host, that do his pleasure, fight under him, and for him; and of the hosts of nations, of the several kingdoms of the world, who are all under his government, and among whom he acts according to his sovereign will and pleasure. Kimchi on the place says, he is called so, because of the hosts above, and because of the hosts below, who are the Israelites, that are called hosts; wherefore he would not consume us all, as we deserved: no, according to the council of his own will, he left them a seed; or as it is in Isaiah, a very small remnant: and so the Syriac here, adyrs , a remnant; both signify one and the same, namely, a few persons only: a remnant signifies a few, which remain out of a large number; and so does seed, which is reserved for sowing again, after the whole stock is sold off, or consumed: and the leaving of this small number designs God's gracious acts of reserving in the election of a people for himself; the calling them by his grace in time, and preserving them from general corruption; which if he had not done among the Jews, as Jarchi on the text says, of himself, and by his mercies, and not for our righteousnesses, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha ; the cities which God destroyed with fire and brimstone from heaven, for their iniquities: had it not been for electing grace, they would have been like the inhabitants of these cities for wickedness; and the case would have been the same with us and with the whole world, had it not been for God's act of election, choosing some to holiness here, and happiness hereafter. The decree of election is so far from being a door to licentiousness, that it is the true spring and source of all real holiness, that has been, or is in the world; and had it not been for this, there would have been no such thing as holiness in the world; and consequently not only Judea, but thee whole world, were it not for this, must have been long before now, like Sodom and Gomorrah, in their punishment.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-29 - The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, wer foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It is a wonde of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those lef to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, ha perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us Even among the vast number of professing Christians it is to be feare that only a remnant will be saved.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ καθως 2531 ADV προειρηκεν 4280 5758 V-RAI-3S ησαιας 2268 N-NSM ει 1487 COND μη 3361 PRT-N κυριος 2962 N-NSM σαβαωθ 4519 HEB εγκατελιπεν 1459 5627 V-2AAI-3S ημιν 2254 P-1DP σπερμα 4690 N-ASN ως 5613 ADV σοδομα 4670 N-NPN αν 302 PRT εγενηθημεν 1096 5675 V-AOI-1P και 2532 CONJ ως 5613 ADV γομορρα 1116 N-NSF αν 302 PRT ωμοιωθημεν 3666 5681 V-API-1P
Vincent's NT Word Studies
29. Said before (proeirhken). Not in a previous passage, but by way of prediction.Seed. Following the Septuagint, which thus renders the Hebrew remnant. See ver. 27. Like the remnant of corn which the farmer leaves for seed.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
9:29 {Hath said before} (proeirken). Perfect active indicative of proeipon (defective verb). Stands on record in #Isa 1:9. {Had left} (egkatelipen). Second aorist active indicative of old verb egkataleipw, to leave behind. Condition of second class, determined as unfulfilled, with an egeneqemen and an h"moi"thmen as the conclusions (both first aorist passives of ginomai and homoiow, common verbs). {A seed} (sperma). The remnant of verse #27.
