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Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicted according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperity was the effect of national obedience, and national...
After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they...
First: Abraham was justified by faith.
Tribulation and anguish--the effect of these in the sinner himself.
What then?...Know ye not--it is a dictate of common sense.
if her husband be dead--"die." So Ro 7:3.
Caesar Augustus--the first of the Roman emperors. all the world--so the vast Roman Empire was termed. taxed--enrolled, or register themselves.
art thou a Roman?--showing that this being of Tarsus, which he had told him before (Ac 21:39) did not necessarily imply that he was a Roman citizen.
the hearing of Augustus--the imperial title first conferred by the Roman Senate on Octavius.
he beareth not the sword in vain--that is, the symbol of the magistrate's authority to punish.
asked of what province he was--the letter describing him as a Roman citizen.
she be married--"joined." So Ro 7:4.
the things, &c.--more simply, "the things of peace, and the things of mutual edification."
the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance--that is, is designed and adapted to do so.
and I am left alone--"I only am left."
their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing--that is, perhaps by turns doing both.
as it is written--(See Isa 52:5, Marginal reference).
A nation of fierce countenance--a just description of the Romans, who were not only bold and unyielding, but ruthless and implacable.
went...to his own city--the city of his extraction, according to the Jewish custom, not of his abode, which was the usual Roman method.
God forbid; for then how shall God judge the world?--that is, "Far from us be such a thought; for that would strike down all future judgment.
The doctrinal teaching of this Epistle is now followed up by a series of exhortations to practical duty. And first, the all-comprehensive duty.
Greet--or "salute" Mary, who bestowed much labour on us--labor, no doubt, of a womanly kind.
they feared when they heard they were Romans--their authority being thus imperilled; for they were liable to an action for what they had done.
I am debtor both to the Greeks--cultivated and to the Barbarians--rude.
Where is boasting then?...excluded. By what law?--on what principle or scheme?. of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.
seven thousand, that have not bowed the knee to Baal--not "the image of Baal," according to the supplement of our version.
But now I go to Jerusalem to minister--"ministering" to the saints--in the sense immediately to be explained.
Urbane--rather, "Urbanus." It is a man's name. our helper--"fellow labourer" in Christ.
The grace, &c.--a repetition of the benediction precisely as in Ro16:20, save that it is here invoked on them "all."