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The office of conscience is to bring to mind things long since said and done. When the guilt of this sin of Joseph's brethren was fresh, they made light of it, and sat down to eat bread; but now,...
First: Abraham was justified by faith.
Care is here taken to distinguish the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself. Singular services shall be recompensed by singular honours. It was to the...
Tribulation and anguish--the effect of these in the sinner himself.
What then?...Know ye not--it is a dictate of common sense.
Caesar Augustus--the first of the Roman emperors. all the world--so the vast Roman Empire was termed. taxed--enrolled, or register themselves.
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.
if her husband be dead--"die." So Ro 7:3.
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.
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).
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."
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.
Which he had promised afore...in the holy scriptures--Though the Roman Church was Gentile by nation (see on Ro 1:13), yet as it consisted mostly of proselytes to the Jewish faith (see on...