Romans 9 Catholic Public Domain Version

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Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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1 I am speaking the truth in Christ; I am not lying. My conscience offers testimony to me in the Holy Spirit,

1 VERDAD digo en Cristo, no miento, dándome testimonio mi conciencia en el Espíritu Santo,

2 because the sadness within me is great, and there is a continuous sorrow in my heart.

2 Que tengo gran tristeza y continuo dolor en mi corazón.

3 For I was desiring that I myself might be anathemized from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, who are my kinsmen according to the flesh.

3 Porque deseara yo mismo ser apartado de Cristo por mis hermanos, los que son mis parientes según la carne;

4 These are the Israelites, to whom belongs adoption as sons, and the glory and the testament, and the giving and following of the law, and the promises.

4 Que son israelitas, de los cuales es la adopción, y la gloria, y el pacto, y la data de la ley, y el culto, y las promesas;

5 Theirs are the fathers, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is over all things, blessed God, for all eternity. Amen.

5 Cuyos son los padres, y de los cuales es Cristo según la carne, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, bendito por los siglos. Amén.

6 But it is not that the Word of God has perished. For not all those who are Israelites are of Israel.

6 No empero que la palabra de Dios haya faltado: porque no todos los que son de Israel son Israelitas;

7 And not all sons are the offspring of Abraham: “For your offspring will be invoked in Isaac.”

7 Ni por ser simiente de Abraham, son todos hijos; mas: En Isaac te será llamada simiente.

8 In other words, those who are the sons of God are not those who are sons of the flesh, but those who are sons of the Promise; these are considered to be the offspring.

8 Quiere decir: No los que son hijos de la carne, éstos son los hijos de Dios; mas los que son hijos de la promesa, son contados en la generación.

9 For the word of promise is this: “I will return at the proper time. And there shall be a son for Sarah.”

9 Porque la palabra de la promesa es esta: Como en este tiempo vendré, y tendrá Sara un hijo.

10 And she was not alone. For Rebecca also, having conceived by Isaac our father, from one act,

10 Y no sólo esto; mas también Rebeca concibiendo de uno, de Isaac nuestro padre,

11 when the children had not yet been born, and had not yet done anything good or bad (such that the purpose of God might be based on their choice),

11 (Porque no siendo aún nacidos, ni habiendo hecho aún ni bien ni mal, para que el propósito de Dios conforme á la elección, no por las obras sino por el que llama, permaneciese;)

12 and not because of deeds, but because of a calling, it was said to her: “The elder shall serve the younger.”

12 Le fué dicho que el mayor serviría al menor.

13 So also it was written: “I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.”

13 Como está escrito: A Jacob amé, mas á Esaú aborrecí.

14 What should we say next? Is there unfairness with God? Let it not be so!

14 ¿Pues qué diremos? ¿Que hay injusticia en Dios? En ninguna manera.

15 For to Moses he says: “I will pity whomever I pity. And I will offer mercy to whomever I will pity.”

15 Mas á Moisés dice: Tendré misericordia del que tendré misericordia, y me compadeceré del que me compadeceré.

16 Therefore, it is not based on those who choose, nor on those who excel, but on God who takes pity.

16 Así que no es del que quiere, ni del que corre, sino de Dios que tiene misericordia.

17 For Scripture says to the Pharaoh: “I have raised you up for this purpose, so that I may reveal my power by you, and so that my name may be announced to all the earth.”

17 Porque la Escritura dice de Faraón: Que para esto mismo te he levantado, para mostrar en ti mi potencia, y que mi nombre sea anunciado por toda la tierra.

18 Therefore, he takes pity on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

18 De manera que del que quiere tiene misericordia; y al que quiere, endurece.

19 And so, you would say to me: “Then why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”

19 Me dirás pues: ¿Por qué, pues, se enoja? porque ¿quién resistirá á su voluntad?

20 O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: “Why have you made me this way?”

20 Mas antes, oh hombre, ¿quién eres tú, para que alterques con Dios? Dirá el vaso de barro al que le labró: ¿Por qué me has hecho tal?

21 And does not the potter have the authority over the clay to make, from the same material, indeed, one vessel unto honor, yet truly another unto disgrace?

21 ¿O no tiene potestad el alfarero para hacer de la misma masa un vaso para honra, y otro para vergüenza?

22 What if God, wanting to reveal his wrath and to make his power known, endured, with much patience, vessels deserving wrath, fit to be destroyed,

22 ¿Y qué, si Dios, queriendo mostrar la ira y hacer notoria su potencia, soportó con mucha mansedumbre los vasos de ira preparados para muerte,

23 so that he might reveal the wealth of his glory, within these vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?

23 Y para hacer notorias las riquezas de su gloria, [mostrólas] para con los vasos de misericordia que él ha preparado para gloria;

24 And so it is with those of us whom he has also called, not only from among the Jews, but even from among the Gentiles,

24 Los cuales también ha llamado, [es á saber], á nosotros, no sólo de los Judíos, mas también de los Gentiles?

25 just as he says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘my people,’ and she who was not beloved, ‘beloved,’ and she who had not obtained mercy, ‘one who has obtained mercy.’

25 Como también en Oseas dice: Llamaré al que no era mi pueblo, pueblo mío; y á la no amada, amada.

26 And this shall be: in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they shall be called the sons of the living God.”

26 Y será, que en el lugar donde les fué dicho: Vosotros no sois pueblo mío: allí serán llamados hijos del Dios viviente.

27 And Isaiah cried out on behalf of Israel: “When the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

27 También Isaías clama tocante á Israel: Si fuere el número de los hijos de Israel como la arena de la mar, las reliquias serán salvas:

28 For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth.”

28 Porque palabra consumadora y abreviadora en justicia, porque palabra abreviada, hará el Señor sobre la tierra.

29 And it is just as Isaiah predicted: “Unless the Lord of hosts had bequeathed offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made similar to Gomorrah.”

29 Y como antes dijo Isaías: Si el Señor de los ejércitos no nos hubiera dejado simiente, como Sodoma habríamos venido á ser, y á Gomorra fuéramos semejantes.

30 What should we say next? That the Gentiles who did not follow justice have attained justice, even the justice that is of faith.

30 ¿Pues qué diremos? Que los Gentiles que no seguían justicia, han alcanzado la justicia, es á saber, la justicia que es por la fe;

31 Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.

31 Mas Israel que seguía la ley de justicia, no ha llegado á la ley de justicia.

32 Why is this? Because they did not seek it from faith, but as if it were from works. For they stumbled over a stumbling block,

32 ¿Por qué? Porque [la seguían] no por fe, mas como por las obras de la ley: por lo cual tropezaron en la piedra de tropiezo,

33 just as it was written: “Behold, I am placing a stumbling block in Zion, and a rock of scandal. But whoever believes in him shall not be confounded.”

33 Como está escrito: He aquí pongo en Sión piedra de tropiezo, y piedra de caída; y aquel que creyere en ella, no será avergonzado.

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Commentary 9:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans (Homily XVI)
Did I not seem yesterday to you to have spoken some great and exorbitant things of Paul's love toward Christ? And great indeed they were, too great for any words to express. Yet what you have heard to-day are as far above those things, as those things were above ours.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
Quotes verse 9:25 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book I, Chapters X–XI)
… saints; and discourse how it is that "this mortal body shall put on immortality, and this corruptible shall put on incorruption;" and proclaim in what sense [God] says, "That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved;" and in what sense He says that "more are the children of her that was …
Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)
Quotes verse 9:12 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VII, Chapters VII–IX)
For it pleased Thee, O Lord, to take away the reproach of diminution from Jacob, that the elder should serve the younger; and Thou hast called the Gentiles into Thine inheritance.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Quotes verse 9:5 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily IV)
how did he "take the form of a servant?" how "was the Word made flesh?" and how saith Paul to the Romans, "Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is God over all?" Therefore that He was of us, and of our substance, and of the Virgin's womb, is manifest from these things, and from others beside; but …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Quotes verse 9:4 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XXII–XXIV)
… is "crowned with glory and honour," and "glory, honour and peace" are laid up by promise "to every man that worketh good." There is moreover a special and peculiar glory for Israelites "to whom," it is said "pertaineth the adoption and the glory...and the service," and the Psalmist speaks of a certain glory of his own, "that my glory may …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)

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