It may seem a little odd to start a commentary onRomans 3by quoting fromRomans 2, but remember that Ipreviously statedthat my “reflections” on Romans series was an attempt to describe my impressions of this epistle as a complete unit, that is, a letter intended to be read all at once...
The Bible tells us, “Everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard” (Romans 3:23, NSV). Notice there are no exceptions. Each of us is a sinner who has spent his or her life in rebellion to God. We have rejected Him and His standard of holiness in pursuit ...
“Over the years, the Protestant work ethic passed on from my father was good for my employer, but wasn’t always so good for the family life.” His life had become work, work, work. Then his young son made a simple request. October 3, 2012 The Myth of Male Decline In an opinion...
2:30 —“Uncovering the Majestic Letter to the Romans” — Brent J. Schmidt and Tom Roberts 3:00 — Conclusion and benediction Video recordings will be made and posted later on this website. ConferencesEphesians,Grace,John Gee,John W. Welch,Joshua Matson,Michael D. Rhodes,Richard D. Draper...
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Romans 5:9 “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.” I Thessalonians 1:10 “and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.” ...
Either through a particular futurist reading of Romans 11:26 or a more generalized postmillennial eschatology, many Reformed Christians came to believe that God will ultimately convert and save the Jewish people. This does not necessitate believing the Jews somehow have a “special” role in God’...
Romane means that Anchises especially urged the modern Romans who were busy building the empire to show compassion. Romane makes these lines a functional reference to Augustus’ lack of compassion. As Putnam (2011, 116-117) puts it in his elucidating chapter on the ending (of the Aeneid): ...
were an early warning of the coming of a religion of slaves—i.e. Christianity—which would eventually overcode Roman society from within. The early Christians, too, were invisible and hence deontologized to the Romans. But their secessionist discontent was already pregnant with the end of Rom...
They therefore add, that these locusts, or chafers, or the palmer worms, were the Assyrians, as well as the Persian and the Greeks, that is, Alexander of Macedon and the Romans: but this is wholly a strained views so that there is no need of a long argument; for any one may ...