Romans 3:3 Meaning and Commentary Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe? &c.] It is suggested, that though the Jews enjoyed such a privilege, some of them did not believe; which is an aggravation of their sin, that they should have such means of light, knowledge, and ...
Romans 3:9 Romans 3:9 Meaning and Commentary Romans 3:9 What then? are we better than they? &c.] The apostle returns to what he was treating of in the beginning of the chapter, and suggests, that though the Jew has the advantage of the Gentile, with respect to some external privileg...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9-20) Once more the argument returns to the main track, and at last the Apostle asserts distinctly and categorically what he had already proved indirectly, that the Jew is every whit as bad as the Gentile. (9) Are we better than they?--"Can we...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) All have sinned and come short.--Strictly, all sinned; the Apostle looking back upon an act done in past time under the old legal dispensation, without immediate reference to the present: he then goes on to say that the result of that act (...
Weiss in the later revisions of the Meyer series (9th edition, 1899), while a very elaborate commentary has been produced by Zahn in his own series (1910). Briefer are the works of Lipsius (Hand-Kommentar, 2nd edition, 1892, very scholarly and suggestive); Lietzmann (Handbuch zum N T,...
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...
John Burnett Notes on Romans— Introductory This is a synopsis of the relevant section of NT Wright, The Letter to the Romans: Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections: New Interpreter's Bible, Volume X (Abingdon Press, Nashville, 2002). Introduction This present commentary is a digest of NT...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...