Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 9:2

2. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart .

His grief for his Nation and People, he expresseth, 1. By the greatness of it; it was such as a Woman hath in Travail; so the Word imports. 2. By the continuance of it; It was continual, or without intermission. 3. By the seat of it; It was in his Heart, and not outward in his [illegible: 2 letters]ce. The Cause he doth not here set down, but it is easily gathered from what follows, viz. The Obstinacy and Infidelity, together with the Rejection of the Iews.

Marginal references: Chap. 1[illegible: 1 letter].