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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...
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.
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...
(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.
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.
I speak to them that know the law--of Moses to whom, though not themselves Jews (see on Ro 1:13), the Old Testament was familiar.
Thou wilt say then--as a plea for boasting. The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.