What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW? OR WHAT PROFIT IS THERE OF CIRCUMCISION? 'If the final judgment will turn solely on the state of the heart, and this may be as good in the Gentile without as in the Jew within the sacred... [ Continue Reading ]
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. MUCH EVERY WAY: CHIEFLY, BECAUSE, [ prooton (G4412) men (G3303) gar (G1063) - see Donaldson, 618 - hoti (G3754)] - rather, 'First, that.' Our version here (following Beza) departs from this the proper meaning of t... [ Continue Reading ]
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? FOR WHAT IF SOME DID NOT BELIEVE - or 'proved unfaithful.' It is the unbelief of the great body of the nation which the apostle points at; but as it sufficed for his argument to put the supposition thus... [ Continue Reading ]
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. GOD FORBID, [ mee (G3361) genoito (G1096)] - 'Let it not be:' q.d., 'Away with such a thought:' an expression not unknown to later... [ Continue Reading ]
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND, [ sunisteesin (G4921)] - 'establisheth,' or 'maketh manifest' (as in Romans 5:8), THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, WHAT SHALL... [ Continue Reading ]
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? GOD FORBID: FOR THEN HOW SHALL GOD JUDGE THE WORLD? - q.d., 'Far from us be such a thought; for that would strike down all future judgment.'... [ Continue Reading ]
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD HATH MORE ABOUNDED THROUGH MY LIE - i:e., If His faithfulness is rendered all the more conspicuous by my want of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. AND [WHY SHOULD WE] NOT [RATHER SAY], (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) LET US DO EVIL, THAT GOOD MAY COME? WHOSE DAMNA... [ Continue Reading ]
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; WHAT THEN? ARE WE BETTER [THAN THEY?] - `Have we the pre-eminence?' 'Do we excel?' [ proechometha (G4284), proecellimus-the middle used like the active]. NO, IN NO... [ Continue Reading ]
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: AS IT IS WRITTEN ... The passages which here follow-from the Psalms, the Proverbs, and Isaiah-were indeed suggested by particular manifestations of human depravity occurring under his own eye; but as this only showed what man, when unrestra... [ Continue Reading ]
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. THERE IS NONE THAT UNDERSTANDETH, THERE IS NONE THAT SEEKETH AFTER GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. THEY ARE ALL GONE OUT OF THE WAY, THEY ARE TOGETHER BECOME UNPROFITABLE; THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO, NOT ONE (Psalms 14:1; Psalms 53:1). From generals the apostle now comes... [ Continue Reading ]
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE (): q.d., 'What proceeds out of their heart, and finds vent in speech and action through the throat, is like the pestilential breath of an open g... [ Continue Reading ]
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS () - q.d., 'That mouth which should be "most sweet" (), being "set on fire of hell" (), is filled with burning wrath against those whom it should only bless:'... [ Continue Reading ]
Their feet are swift to shed blood: THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD (; ) - q.d., 'Those feet which should "run the way of God's commandments" () are employed to conduct men to deeds of darkest crime:'... [ Continue Reading ]
_DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR WAYS:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the way of peace have they not known: AND THE WAY OF PEACE HAVE THEY NOT KNOWN (Isaiah 59:7). These two last clauses are a supplementary statement about men's ways, suggested by what had been said about the "feet," and they express the mischief and misery which men scatter in their path, ins... [ Continue Reading ]
There is no fear of God before their eyes. THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES () - q.d., 'Did the eyes but "see Him who is invisible" (), a reverential awe of Him with whom we have to do would chasten every joy and lift the soul out of its deepest depressions; but to all this the natural... [ Continue Reading ]
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. NOW WE KNOW THAT WHAT THINGS SOEVER THE LAW (THAT IS, THE SCRIPTURE, REGARDED AS A LAW OF DUTY: CF. JOHN 10:34 ) SAITH, IT S... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW - by compliance with its requirement... [ Continue Reading ]
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; BUT NOW - [ nuni (G3570) de (G1161)]. We may view this either as a particle of transition to a new stage of the argument (as Fritzsche, Meyer, DeWette, and Alford take it) or as a particl... [ Continue Reading ]
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD [WHICH IS] BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST - that is, by faith in Him (the genitive of the object of faith), UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THA... [ Continue Reading ]
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; FOR ALL HAVE SINNED - `For all sinned' [ heemarton (G264). The aorist is here used, as the thing affirmed is regarded, in respect of the whole race, as already an accomplished fact]. AND [DO] COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD - that is, 'of... [ Continue Reading ]
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY, [ doorean (G1432)] - without anything done on our part to deserve it (compare 2 Thessalonians 3:8, where the same word is rendered, "for nought") BY HIS GRACE - gratuitously, in the sole... [ Continue Reading ]
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH ('GOD SET FORTH') [TO BE] A PROPITIATION, [ hilasteerion (G2435) = kaporet (H3727)]. In the only o... [ Continue Reading ]
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. TO DECLARE, [I SAY], AT THIS TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS - `For the showing forth of His righteousness at this present time' (meaning the present Gospel time), THAT HE MIGHT ... [ Continue Reading ]
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. WHERE IS BOASTING THEN? IT IS EXCLUDED. BY WHAT LAW? - `On what principle?' OF WORKS? NAY; BUT BY THE LAW (or, on the principle) OF FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE LAW. There is weighty evidence in favour of 'For' here, in place of "Therefore;" and most critics regard it as the true reading-thou... [ Continue Reading ]
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: IS HE THE GOD OF THE JEWS ONLY? IS HE NOT ALSO OF THE GENTILES? YES, OF THE GENTILES ALSO. The way of salvation must be one equally suited to the whole family of fallen man; but the doctrine of justificati... [ Continue Reading ]
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. SEEING [IT IS] ONE GOD WHICH SHALL - or, 'one is the God who shall' JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISION BY FAITH, [ ek (G1537) pisteoos (G4102).] AND UNCIRCUMCISION THROUGH FAITH, [ dia (G1223) tees (G... [ Continue Reading ]
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? 'Does this doctrine of justification by faith, then, dissolve the obligation of the law? If so, it cannot be of God; but away with such a thought, for it does just the r... [ Continue Reading ]