Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersV. (1-11) A description of the serene and blissful state which the sense of justification brings. Faith brings justification; justification brings (let us see that it does bring) peace--peace with God, through the mediation of Jesus. To that mediation...
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 10:5-11 The self-condemned sinner need not perplex himself how this righteousness may be found. When we speak of looking upon Christ, and receiving, and feeding upon him, it is not Christ in heaven, nor Christ in the deep, that we mean; but Christ in...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) A sort of parenthesis begins here. Romans 2:16 refers back to the main subject of the paragraph, and not to the particular point on which the Apostle digresses in Romans 2:14-15, the virtual operation of law among the Gentiles as well as Je...
The writer may be allowed to name his short commentary (1879) in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and a fuller one, in a more homiletic style, in the Expositor's Bible, 1894.Handley Dunelm← Roman; Romans Rome →Your Bible study is too important to leave to a web search. Better Bible...
Benson Commentary Romans 8:33-34.Who shall lay any thing to the charge— Any matter of guilt, which should bring them into condemnation, or shall bring an accusation againstGod’s elect— That is, against true believers, who have so received Christ (John 1:12) as to have obtained the ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Who was declared (so Authorized Version) the Son of God with (literally, in) power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of (not as in Authorized Version, from) the dead. Supposing the intention here to be to declare the Son's essential ...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Rejoice with them that do rejoice.—The feeling of sympathy is perhaps more under the control of the will than might be supposed. It becomes so, however, not so much by isolated efforts as by a conscious direction given to the whole life. The...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) For the woman which hath an husband.--The illustration is not quite exact. The Law is here represented by the husband, but the Apostle does not mean to say that the Law dies to the Christian, but the Christian to the Law. The proposition mus...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4, 5) Another alternative is put forward, which has less to do with the distinction of Jew and Gentile, and in which the Apostle keeps more closely to the general form that his argument has assumed: "Or do you think to take refuge in the goodnes...
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersVII. (1-6) The Apostle takes up an idea to which he had alluded in Romans 7:14-15 of the preceding chapter, "Ye are not under the Law, but under grace;" and as he had worked out the conclusion of the death of the Christian to sin, so ...