Rom 9:2 | RWP | e4.org | Sorrow ( λυπη ). Because the Jews were rejecting Christ the Messiah. "We may compare the grief of a Jew writing after the fall of Jerusalem" (Sanday and Headlam). Unceasing pain in my heart ( αδιαλειπτος οδυνη τη καρδια ). Like angina pectoris . Οδυνη is old word for consuming grief, in N.T. only here and and . Unceasing ( αδιαλειπτος ). Late and rare adjective (in an inscription 1 cent. B.C.), in N.T. only here and . Two rare words together and both here only in N.T. and I and II Timothy (some small argument for the Pauline authorship of the Pastoral Epistles).

‏ Romans 9:2

Sorrow ( λυπη ). Because the Jews were rejecting Christ the Messiah. "We may compare the grief of a Jew writing after the fall of Jerusalem" (Sanday and Headlam).

Unceasing pain in my heart ( αδιαλειπτος οδυνη τη καρδια ). Like angina pectoris. Οδυνη is old word for consuming grief, in N.T. only here and and 1Ti 6:10.

Unceasing ( αδιαλειπτος ). Late and rare adjective (in an inscription 1 cent. B.C.), in N.T. only here and 2Ti 1:3. Two rare words together and both here only in N.T. and I and II Timothy (some small argument for the Pauline authorship of the Pastoral Epistles).