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...
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6) “There is only one God, and He makes people right with Himselfonly by faith” (verse 30). During His ministry, Jesus would occasionally use 2 or 3 similar parables to drive home a difficult truth He wanted His disciples to understand clearly. In this passage above (Romans 3:22-29...
Professor Beard’s commentary, written in a highly entertaining style, is part of a BBC series called “Meet the Romans.” April 23, 2012 NPR Report on the Bible and Economic Systems Read or listen to this National Public Radio report on how both conservatives and liberals appeal to the ...
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...
society, sin is always fighting to grow like an aggressive, matastasizing cancer. Given the right environment it will grow to overtake the thinking and actions of people, completely consuming their individual and collective lives until there is nothing left. Paul describes this process in Romans ...
I don’t know about you, but the older I’ve gotten, the more I have appreciated the gravity of Christmas. As a child, Christmas is all about the presents. It’s all focused on Santa Claus and Christmas morning. As you move into adolescence and young adulthood, you begin to have an...
After the same sort, Paul, in his Epistle unto the Romans, (Romans 3:26,) after he hath set down the law of works, to the end that the contrary may answer on the other side, he useth the law of faith for faith itself. Acts 1:6-8 6. And when they, were gathered together, ...
2. To add to his misery, they obliged him as long as he was able, to carry his cross (v. 17), according to the custom among the Romans; hence Furcifer was among them a name of reproach. Their crosses did not stand up constantly, as our gibbets do in the places of execution, bec...
The end of the democratic phase of the Roman republic was brought about by wealthy, elite Romans like Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE) — the richest man in the nation at the time — who frankly hated the Roman “free bread for all” welfare system. ...