Romans 12:2 Meaning and Commentary Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world By this world is meant, either the Mosaic dispensation, and Jewish church state, so called in opposition to (abh Mlwe) , "the world to come", the Gospel dispensation; in which there were a worldly sanctu...
Romans 12:14 Meaning and Commentary Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you It is the lot of God's, people in this world to be persecuted by the men of it, in some shape or another, either by words or deeds; either by reviling and reproaching them, and speaking all manner of ...
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary12:9-16 The professed love of Christians to each other should be sincere, free from deceit, and unmeaning and deceitful compliments. Depending on Divine grace, they must detest and dread all evil, and love and delight in whatever is kind and useful. We ...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (2)Be not conformed . . . but be ye transformed.--Here the English is somewhat misleading. It would naturally lead us to expect a similar play upon words in the Greek. But it is not so; indeed, there is a clear distinction between the two dif...
in his commentary on this chapter (under the heading 'The Problem of Ethics'), Barth maintains that worship, that is, the offering of our bodies as 'living sacrifices' to God, should be seen as the primary ethical act , which precedes and renders possible all other secondary eth...
Brown, David, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, in A Commentary Critical, Experimental, and Practical on the Old and New Testaments, Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, eds., Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., 1978 ( xxxx ) Barclay, William, The Letter to the Romans, Phil...
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See also Meyer's Commentary, who explains it as "the sentence defining righteousness, the ordinance of God in which He completes the justifying, the opposite of condemnation."}Why the Law entered.— From Adam we have been carried on to the Lord Jesus Christ, thus coming down through forty ...
In “Paul’s letter to the Romans: a socio-rhetorical commentary” the author comments on Paul’s use of rhetoric in Romans;Paul uses diatribal form especially in Rom. 2.1-6.17-24; 3.1-9. 3:27-4.25; 9.19-21; 10.14-21; 11.17-24; 14.4, 1013 Among characteristic element of diatribe ...
35Based on Abarbanel’s commentary (Warsaw, 1862) on Deut 31, s.v.we-hine ha-dibbur: ForMy people have done a twofold wrong: They have forsaken me, the fount of living waters,and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, which cannot even hold water” (Jer 2:13).36Based on a ...