Cyprian Epistle LXVII
And besides, Paul the apostle writes, and says the same thing: "Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters of themselves, inventors of evil things, who, although they knew the judgment of God, did not understand that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only they which commit those things, but they also which consent unto those who do these things."[32]
Verse 30. _BACKBITERS_] καταλαλους, from κατα, _against_, and λαλεω, _I speak_; those who speak against others; false accusers, _slanderers_. _HATERS OF GOD_] θεοστυγεις, _atheists, contemners of sac...
BACKBITERS - Those Who calumniate, slander, or speak ill of those who are absent. Whisperers declare secretly, and with great reserve, the supposed faults of others. Backbiters proclaim them publicly...
2. THE NEED OF SALVATION DEMONSTRATED. The Whole World Guilty and Lost. Chapter 1:18-3:20. CHAPTER 1:18-32. _ 1. Wrath Revealed from Heaven. 18._ 2. Gentile Knowledge of God. 19-20. 3. Turning f...
Mankind is in a ruinous plight: GOD'S ANGER, which is His righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race. ROMANS 1:18_ A_. The Divine wrath is being revealed from heaven in action against...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
Just as they have given themselves over to a kind of knowledge that rejects the idea of God, so God has given them over to the kind of mind that all reject. The result is that they do things which it...
BACKBITERS. evil speakers (not necessarily behind the back). Greek. _katalalos._ Only here. Compare 2 Corinthians 12:20; 1 Peter 2:1. HATERS OF GOD. hateful to God. Greek. _theostuges._ Only here. DE...
_backbiters_ Rather, EVIL SPEAKERS, without the special notion of speaking in the _absence_of the person attacked. _haters of God_ The Gr., by formation and classical usage, should rather mean HATEFU...
Romans 1:18-32. (18) This power and condition revealed in the Gospel meets the need of man; for in the actual state of man we can see that his life lies under GOD’s wrath. Man has by unrighteous actio...
ΚΑΤΆΛΑΛΟΣ (G2637) хула на ближнего, злоречие. Предложное сочетание указывает на действие, неблагоприятное для его объекта (МН, 316). ΘΕΟΣΤΥΓΉΣ (G2319) "ненавистный Богу" пассивное значение, или "нена...
DISCOURSE: 1823 MEN HATERS OF GOD Romans 1:30. _Haters of God_. WHAT! are there any persons of this character upon earth? It cannot be: it were a libel upon human nature to suppose it. Go round to al...
HATERS OF GOD— Discontented with his government, and disaffected to his rule, as a righteous and holy Being who could not but be highly displeased with their abominations. The original word 'Υβριστας,...
_TEXT_ Romans 1:26-32. For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the...
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, BACKBITERS, [ katalalous (G2637)] - rather, 'slanderers'. The former word refers to secret...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 25 There may be an allusion here to the prevalent custom of worshiping the Roman emperor. It has often occurred that, when men have attained to great eminence, they have dema...
1:30 God, (f-4) I doubt that it has the sense of 'God-haters.' It acquired the sense of 'abominably wicked.' as 'cursed children' does not mean that a curse is pronounced, but that they are fit only t...
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE HEATHEN In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
DESPITEFUL] RV 'insolent.' PROUD] RV 'haughty.'...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
HATERS OF GOD. — Rather, perhaps, _hated by God._ There seem to be no examples of the active sense. The Apostle apparently throws in one emphatic word summing up the catalogue as far as it has gone; h...
WHISPERERS, BACKBITERS. — In the Greek the idea of secresy is contained chiefly in the first of these words. “Secret backbiters and slanderers of every kind.”...
(24-32) Hence they fell into a still lower depth; for, in anger at their perversion of the truth, God refrained from checking their downward course. He left them to follow their own evil bent. Their i...
CHAPTER 5 MAN GIVEN UP TO HIS OWN WAY: THE HEATHEN Romans 1:24 WHEREFORE God gave them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, so as to dishonour their bodies among themselves. There is...
FROM GROSS SINS OF THE FLESH Romans 1:24 Few men knew as much as did Paul of the unutterableness of human need. In terrible words he enumerates its various aspects. Truth would enter human hearts fro...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
_Hateful [5] to God. The Greek may also signify, haters of God. (Witham) --- Greek: theostugeis means either haters of God, or hated by God. (Menochius) --- Disobedient to parents. The Greek literally...
FOURTH PASSAGE (1:18-32). THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE GENTILES. According to Paul's usual style, the first verse contains summarily all the ideas developed in the following piece. The study of the verse...
“ _Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters._ ” The dispositions expressed in the six terms of this group are those of which pride is the centre. There is no reason for reduc...
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; (19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
30.The word θεοστυγεῖς, means, no doubt, _haters of God_; for there is no reason to take it in a passive sense, (hated of God,) since Paul here proves men to be guilty by manifest vices. Those, then,...
There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
BACKBITERS,.... Who more publicly defamed the characters of their neighbours, and hurt their good name, credit and reputation, though behind their backs: HATERS OF GOD; some read it, "hated of God";...
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Ver. 30. _Haters of God_] And so God-murderers,1 John 3:15. _See Trapp on "_ 1Jn 3:15 _"_...
_And as they did not like_ ουκ εδοκιμασαν, _they did not approve, to retain God in their knowledge_ Or rather, as εχειν εν επιγνωσει more properly signifies, _to retain him with acknowledgment._ For i...
BACKBITERS, HATERS OF GOD, DESPITEFUL, PROUD, BOASTERS, INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,...
The depths of immorality and godlessness:...
The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel...
ROMANS 1:26-32 1. What is the basic problem of man as Paul sees it in chapter one? a. Is it idolatry? b. Failure to worship God? c. Something more basic? 2. Which sin really came first? a. Fooli...
ROMANS 1:29 : Remember, these are sins just as bad as homosexuality! 'UNLOVING' (ROMANS 1:31) -'without natural affection'; which means lovelessness where healthy people should have it; love of famil...
26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he...
HATERS OF GOD; the original word hath a passive termination, and therefore some read it, hated of God. But words passive are sometimes actively taken: see 2 PETER 1:3. And the apostle here intendeth a...
backbiters [outspoken slanderers], _hateful to God_ [many contend that this should read "haters of God," since Paul is enumerating the vices of men, and not God's attitude toward them. Others, followi...
Romans 1:30 backbiters G2637 God G2319 violent G5197 proud G5244 boasters G213 inventors G2182 things G2556 disobedient G545
THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSING TO HAVE GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE (1:28-32). Paul now moves on from the results of ungodliness to the results of unrighteousness (compare Romans 1:18). Men refused to have Go...
‘Being filled with all unrighteousness: wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, in...
Romans 1:30. BACKBITERS; open slanderers, or calumniators. HATEFUL TO GOD; or, as in the E. V., ‘haters of God.' The former sense is the classical one; the latter is supposed to be more in accordance...
DOCTRINAL PART. 1. UNIVERSAL NEED. Having asserted that the gospel is God's power unto salvation to every one that believeth, whether Jew or Greek, the Apostle proceeds to show that all men are sinne...
1. THE SINFULNESS OF THE GENTILES. This fearful yet truthful description of the moral decay of the Gentile world is not introduced abruptly. In Romans 1:17 the Apostle had declared that righteousness...
Paul changes the construction again to twelve substantives and adjectives that give vivid touches to this composite photograph of the God abandoned soul.WHISPERERS (ψιθυριστας). Old word from ψιθυρι...
Romans 1:18 The Natural History of Paganism. I. St. Paul's first proposition is, that from the first the heathen knew enough of God from His works to render them without excuse for not worshipping H...
CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of a lost world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: God has...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,_ in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your s...
THEY ARE HATEFUL TO GOD. Sin is a hateful thing to God. See note on Matthew 27:46....
_For this cause God gave them up to vile affections._ HUMAN DEPRAVITY I. The cause of all this gross ignorance and corruption is assigned in Romans 1:28. “They did not like to retain God in their kn...
_Being filled with all unrighteousness._ THE PREVALENCE OF EVIL All is full of crime and vice; there is more committed than can be healed by punishment. A monstrous prize contest of wickedness is go...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:22.—Here begins a dark picture of heathenism, but fully verified from the writings of what has been called the most brilliant age of the most intellectual nations of the worl...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 1:1 I. INTRODUCTORY. ROMANS 1:1 A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's mind is...
This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens his epistle to the Romans declaring: Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God...
1 Kings 20:11; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 25:19; 2 Corinthians 10:15;...
Whisperers — Such as secretly defame others. Backbiters — Such as speak against others behind their back. Haters of God — That is, rebels against him, deniers of his providence, or accusers of his jus...