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Ask a QuestionUrbane--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.
(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.
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 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...
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.
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...
when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos--on the opposite or west side of the island, about one hundred miles by land, along the south coast; the Roman capital, where the governor resided. ...