<p>9:2 <em>That I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart</em>- This is the spirit of Jeremiah, who likewise suffered at the hands of a Gospel-resistant Israel, but loved them to tears. The rejection of the Gospel by others should not be met by indifference on our part. Any who have a real sense of God's glory and the tragedy of any man's rejection of the cross will feel likewise. Paul uses the same word for &quot;sorrow&quot; in writing of his pain at Corinth's rejection of the Gospel (2 Cor. 2:1,3), and we note that Paul may well have been writing to the Romans from Corinth. Paul had these feelings &quot;in Christ&quot; (:1) because he was manifesting the Lord's emotions towards Israel.</p>