 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 pages
...attained to the la-w of righteousness. The cause of Israel's missing righteousness, he gives verse 32. Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the lawi for they did not build and believe on Christ as a foundation, but stumbled at him... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law...they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law ; for they stumbled at that stumbling stone," Rom. ix. 30 — 32. And this is the... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 408 pages
...attained to righteousness, even the righ" teousness of faith. But Israel, which followed " after the law of righteousness, hath not attained " to the law...they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the " works of the law : for they stumbled at that stum" bling-stone."J Was any true believer ever excluded... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...claim, are said by the apostle Paul to have " attained unto righteouness ; but Israel did not attain it. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but, as it were, by the works of the law. For they slum bled at that stumbling stone." It eeems necessary, therefore, to limit... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 536 pages
...opposition to the works of the law, or obedience to a covenant of works, in the following words, " Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law."J To seek righteousness, as it were by the works of the law, is to do works, or attempt... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pages
...attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: but Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law...they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law; for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone.' It is one of the main differences betwixt... | |
 | 1812 - 292 pages
...stone ot stumbling as noticed in the 9th. chapter, verses 31, 32. "But Israel which followel after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law...they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the l»w : for they atu rout the stumbling stone." Look at the llth chapter and llth> verse,... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...apostle's design in this and the fol•_. 1__ . • . I .1 1 „!__ * _ * _ fT f 1 _• »__ TEXT. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it, not by faith, but (as it were) by the works of the law : for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone. S3 As it is written, Behold I lay in... | |
 | William Paley - 1812 - 586 pages
...Israel, which follow. ed after the law of righteousness, had not attained to the law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling stone," he takes care to annex to this declaration... | |
 | John Smith - 1812 - 286 pages
...to a * Deut. xi. 26—28. f II. Cor. iii. 7—9. t Gal. iii. 13, 14. justifying righteousness, while they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law."* In this sense, the Sinai covenant was not faultless. In respect to efficacy for... | |
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What shall we say then ? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; but Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.... 
