McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Romans 1:3
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
Verse Romans 1:3. _CONCERNING HIS SON_] That is, the Gospel relates every thing concerning the _conception, birth, preaching, miracles,_ _passion, death, resurrection_, and _ascension_ of Jesus Christ...
CONCERNING HIS SON - This is connected with the first verse, with the word “gospel.” The gospel of God concerning his Son. The design of the gospel was to make a communication relative to his Son Jesu...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. DOCTRINAL. THE SALVATION OF GOD. Chapter 1-8. CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Apostle and the Gospel of God. (Romans 1:1 .)_ 2. The Greeting. (Romans 1:7 .) 3. The Apostle's Prayer...
THE ADDRESS is elaborate, for Paul is introducing himself to a strange community; and stately, as befits Christ's ambassador approaching the imperial city. Romans 1:1 f., Romans 1:5 f. He is an apostl...
This is a letter from Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart to serve the good news of God. This good news God promised long ago, through his prophets, in the sacred writing...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
CONCERNING. Greek. _p_ eri. App-104. SON. Greek. _huios._ App-108. JESUS... LORD. In the Greek these words follow after "dead" in Romans 1:4. Figure of speech _Hyperbaton._ App-6. LORD. App-98. WHI...
_concerning his Son_, &c. The connexion is with the close of Romans 1:2: the "promise through the prophets" was "concerning the Son of God." In the Gr., the order of words in this verse and the next i...
ΠΕΡῚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΥἹΟΥ͂ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ Κ.Τ.Λ. ‘His Son’ is the subject of GOD’S Gospel promised beforehand—the words go with the whole preceding clause taken as one idea; their meaning is developed in the participia...
A. Romans 1:1-17. INTRODUCTION. ADDRESS 1–7. OCCASION 8–15. SUBJECT 16–17. 1–7. Address. The writer’s (_a_) name and state, (_b_) office, (_c_) commission defined by a statement of (i) the Person from...
ΠΕΡΊ ΤΟΫ ΥΊΟΫ́ ΑΎΤΟΫ́. Фраза "по поводу Его Сына" тесно связана со словом ΕΎΑΓΓΈΛΙΟΝ (Lightfoot, Notes), ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΟΥ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. Гл. указывает на и...
ACCORDING TO THE FLESH— That is, with regard to his human nature. Both the natures of our Saviour are mentioned in this and the following verse. This too regards the Jew, and puts him in mind that Jes...
PART ONE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS, Romans 1:1-15 SALUTATION, Romans 1:1-7 _Text_ Romans 1:1-7. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be anapostle, separated unto the gospel of God,...
_RETHINKING IN OUTLINE FORM_ PART ONE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS, Romans 1:1-15 I. Salutation. Romans 1:1-7 1. The Author. Romans 1:1 2. The Gospel in Review....
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; CONCERNING ... It would have been better if the order in which the words of this and the follow...
1 Paul dates his apostleship from the commission he received at Antioch (Act_13:2) when he was severed from the rest to preach the evangel of God to the nations. Hitherto only Jews and proselytes like...
DAVID] Thus fulfilling prophecies, as Isaiah 11:1, and the expectation of the Jews (cp. Mark 12:35; John 7:42) that the Messiah would be descended from David: cp. Ma
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...
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...
Who, on the human side — as if to show that the prophecies were really fulfilled in Him — was born of the seed of David, the rightful lineage of the Messiah; who, on the divine side, by virtue of the...
(1-7) In writing to the Romans, a Church to which he was personally unknown, and which might be supposed, so far as it was Jewish, to be prejudiced against him, the Apostle delivers with somewhat more...
CHAPTER 2 THE WRITER AND HIS READERS Romans 1:1 PAUL, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. So the man opens his Lord's message with his own name. We may, if we please, leave it and pass on, for to the let...
The usual salutation of the Apostle is expanded, as is natural in writing to persons whom he has not seen, into a description both of himself and of his Gospel. Both, so to speak, need a fuller introd...
f. περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ : the subject of the Gospel of God is His Son. For the same conception, see 2 Corinthians 1:19 : ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ γὰρ υἱὸς Χ. Ἰ. ὁ ἐν ὑμῖν διʼ ἡμῶν κηρυχθείς. Taken by itself, “the So...
THE APOSTLE'S BURNING DESIRE Romans 1:1 Upon the threshold of his greatest Epistle, Paul describes himself as a bond-servant. Such humility as his qualified him to be the medium of God's wondrous rev...
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...
(3) Concerning his (d) Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was (e) made of the seed of David (f) according to the flesh; (3) By declaring the sum of the doctrine of the Gospel, he stirs up the Romans to...
Who was made to him of the seed of David, according to the flesh. The sense is, that God promised, that he who was his true and only Son from eternity, should also become his son, as man; that the sam...
PREFACE. 1:1-15. THE framework of the Epistle to the Romans is, as we have seen, the same as that of the most of Paul's other Epistles: 1. An epistolary preface; 2. The body of the letter; 3. An epis...
FIRST PASSAGE (1:1-7). THE ADDRESS. The form of address usual among the ancients contained three terms: “N. to N. _greeting._ ” Comp. Acts 23:26: “Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Feli...
“ _Concerning his Son, born of the race of David according to the flesh; established as the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ...
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (2) (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures), (3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our...
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...
3._Concerning his own Son, etc. _— This is a remarkable passage, by which we are taught that the whole gospel is included in Christ, so that if any removes one step from Christ, he withdraws himself f...
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...
CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD,.... These words are in connection with "the Gospel of God", Romans 1:1, and express the subject matter of it, the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord; for Chris...
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; Ver. 3. _Concerning his Son_] Here is a lofty and lively description of Christ's sacred person. T...
_Concerning his Son Jesus Christ_ The gospel is good news from God, concerning the coming of his Son to save the world. The Son of God, therefore, is the subject of the gospel, as well as its author:...
THE SEED OF DAVID; a descendant of David. ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; as to his human nature....
CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD, WHICH WAS MADE OF THE SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE FLESH;...
SALUTATION OF THE LETTER....
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 1:1-17 1. How did Paul gain the ear of the Roman church? a. How did Paul establish a common tie with the Jews at Rome? i. Prophets ii. Quote from Scripture iii. Jesus was the seed of David...
CONCERNING HIS SON, WHO WAS BORN OF THE SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, 'Concerning' -the good news is all about one person, the Son of God. Which reference to His humanity, He was. descendant...
1-7 The doctrine of which the apostle Paul wrote, set forth the fulfilment of the promises by the prophets. It spoke of the Son of God, even Jesus the Saviour, the promised Messiah, who came from Dav...
CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD: this phrase either respects the Holy Scriptures, mentioned immediately before in ROMANS 1:2; the sum and substance of them is, concerning the Messiah, the Son...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans For I have observed that ye are perfected in an immoveable faith, as if ye were nailed to the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, both in the flesh and in the spirit...
Romans 1:3 concerning G4012 His G846 Son G5207 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 our G2257 Lord G2962 who G3588 born...
THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD (1:2-6). What that ‘Good News of God' was is now made clear, as is the fact that it had been promised beforetime through God's prophets in the Holy Scriptures. In other words Paul...
COMMENTARY. This Letter was written by Paul to the church in Rome, and its whole stress is on ‘the Good News of God'. It commences with a description of that ‘Good News (Gospel) of God', which is wha...
‘Concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,' This message was ‘concerning His Son'. The phrase ‘His own Son' contains within it the certainty of Christ's Godhood. Co...
Romans 1:3. CONCERNING HIS BON. The punctuation of the E. V. connects this with the word ‘gospel' (Romans 1:1), but it may be joined with Romans 1:2: God's previous promise in the Old Testament was co...
_ADDRESS AND GREETING_ The Apostle conforms to the usage of his time, beginning his letters with his own name, followed by a designation of the persons addressed, to which a greeting is added. But he...
CONCERNING HIS SON (περ του υιου αυτου). Just as Jesus found himself in the O.T. (Luke 24:27; Luke 24:46). The deity of Christ here stated.ACCORDING TO THE FLESH (κατα σαρκα). His real humanity al...
SEED See note on the Davidic descent of Christ, (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 3:23). _...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,_ Paul has many titles, and he delights to mention them in writing to these Christians at Rome....
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...
FROM PAUL, A SERVANT OF CHRIST JESUS. The custom in the first century was for the writer to introduce himself at the beginning of a letter. CHOSEN AND CALLED BY GOD. Paul makes this strong statement o...
_Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ._ AUTHENTICATION AND SALUTATION I. The apostle. 1. Paul was not the name by which he was always known, but was assumed shortly after the commencement of his mission...
_Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord._ CHRIST, GOD’S SON I. In what sense. 1. Not-- (1) As angels (Job 38:7). (2) As Israel (Exodus 5:22; Hosea 11:1). (3) As Adam and men in ge
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:1 The Gospel as the Revelation of God’s Righteousness. This first section includes Paul’s opening greeting (vv. Romans 1:1), thanksgiving (vv....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:2 Jesus fulfilled the OT prophecy that a descendant of DAVID would rule forever. He is the Messiah (see 2 Samuel 7:12;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:3. TO THE FLESH.—σάρξ denotes a living being in distinction from the dead, which is κρέας. It denotes also body as distinguished from mind (Stuart). OUR LORD.—Supreme Ruler...
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 Corinthians 1:9; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 3:8; 1 John 4:10;...
Concerning His son. Connect with promised afore. Christ is the great personal object to which the promise referred....
THE GOSPEL OF GOD Romans 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a SERVANT...
Who was of the seed of David according to the flesh — That is, with regard to his human nature. Both the natures of our Saviour are here mentioned; but the human is mentioned first, because the divine...
The apostle having told us in the foregoing verses, that he was particularly called to, and by God set apart for, the preaching of the gospel, in the verses before us he declares that Jesus Christ was...