Notes on The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
9:3 Anathema: A curse. The apostle's concern and love for his countrymen the Jews was so great, that he was willing to suffer even an anathema, or curse, for their sake; or any evil that could come upon him, without his offending God.
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