Romans 9:5 - understanding the English AV text

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Steven Avery

This is the awkward multiple ellipses, God doing double-duty, reading.

This is an awkward attempt to dismiss things by stringing some cool sounding words together. It's "awkward" because it doesn't fit your interpretation.

If Christ is over all, as an antithesis to "as concerning the flesh", then He is God.

Godblessed is nonstandard (bad) English. Can you find one example pre-1800 of such a usage? I'd be interested to see it.