Rom 9

‎IN the first eight chapters Paul has established his teaching that justification is by faith. The form of the last sentences of chapter 8. suggests that the discussion on the subject is being concluded. When we turn to the ninth chapter we enter a fresh phase of the subject. Paul’s doctrine was so subversive of Jewish hopes and teaching that the position of Israel in relation to God’s plan must needs be considered. The Jews were God’s people; the Gentile nations were not. But since the apostles of Jesus Christ were teaching that for Jew and Gentile, without any distinction, there was but one way of salvation, what becomes of the privileges of Israel?

1930 Christadelphian: p 106.