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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."
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.
(Jer 50:40; De 29:23; Am 4:11). no man shall abide there--that is, of the Idumeans. The Romans had a garrison there.
No security should anywhere be found (De 32:25). Fulfilled (La1:20); also at the Roman invasion (Mt 24:16-18).
the chief captain--"the chiliarch," or tribune of the Roman cohort, whose full number was one thousand men.
because I doubted of such manner of questions--The "I" is emphatic. "I," as a Roman judge, being at a loss how to deal with such matters.
hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law--not being left, as the heathen are, to vague conjecture on divine things, but favored with definite and precise information from heaven.
And therefore it was imputed, &c.--"Let all then take notice that this was not because of anything meritorious in Abraham, but merely because he so believed."
Much more then, being--"having been" now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Now if we be dead--"if we died." with Christ, &c.--See on Ro 6:5.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God--"This is another confirmation of the truth that faith supposes the hearing of the Word, and this a commission to preach it."
For rulers are not a terror to good works--"to the good work," as the true reading appears to be but to the evil.
Amplias--a contracted form of "Ampliatus." my beloved in the Lord--an expression of dear Christian affection.
The apostle adds affectionate remembrances from persons with him, known to the Roman Christians. It is a great comfort to see the holiness and usefulness of our kindred. Not many mighty, not many...
Chittim--the countries lying on the Mediterranean, particularly Greece and Italy (Da 11:29, 30). The Assyrians were themselves to be overthrown--first, by the Greeks under Alexander the Great and...
Then I knew--Not that Jeremiah previously doubted the reality of the divine communication, but, the effect following it, and the prophet's experimentally knowing it, confirmed his faith and was the...
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...
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far--the invasion of the Romans--"they came from far." The soldiers of the invading army were taken from France, Spain, and Britain--then considered...
he considered not, &c.--paid no attention to those physical obstacles, both in himself and in Sarah, which might seem to render the fulfilment hopeless.