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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.
to the Jew first--first in perdition if unfaithful; but if obedient to the truth, first in salvation (Ro 2:10).
For if they which are of the law be heirs--If the blessing is to be earned by obedience to the law. faith is made void--the whole divine method is subverted.
If...I may provoke, &c. (See on Ro 11:11.) my flesh--Compare Isa 58:7.