PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 2
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 731,986 words · 1069 reading sections
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to describe God’s liberation of Israel from Egypt (15. xliii. 3 does not count). On the other hand, the classical examples favour the idea that a reference to the cost of liberation is involved in the word. Thus Jos., Ant., xii. 2, 3: πλειόνων δὲ ἢ τετρακοσίων ταλάντων τὰ τῆς ἄπολν- τρώσεως γεγήσεσθαι Φαμένων κ.…
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eS Of _ words. 611 ™ ἔνδειξιν τῆς m2 Cor viii. ή ; 24; Phil 1. 28. Most critical Weiss puts it in text, and ᾿Ισραὴλ προκακωθέντα διέσωσεν) is inde- cisive, owing to the doubtful reading.* Perhaps the grammatical question is insoluble; but there is no question that Christ is conceived as endued with pro- pi…
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Πε. ἐν τῇ ἀνοχῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ, 26. πρὸς ἔνδειδιν τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ ἐν Ch.viii18, A A a “xi. TOVaV™ καιρῷ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν δίκαιον καὶ δικαιοῦντα τὸν ἐκ πίστεως taken. Faith must have its place, there- ter with a view to demonstrate His fore, in the profoundest statement of the Gospel, as the correlative of grac…
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36- ο. 3 lol Ιησοῦ. τῶν ἔργων; οὐχὶ, ἀλλὰ διὰ νόµου πίστεως. 2]. Ποῦ οὖν ἡ καύχησις; ἐξεκλείσθη. 613 διὰ ° ποίου νόµου ; ο Acts iv. 7. 28. λογιζόμεθα οὖν 1 1 ουν: so BCD°KL 17, but yap ΝΑ Ρ)Ε, Origen-interp. The division of authorities here is like that in ver. 25, and the edd. decide in the same way. W. and H…
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Ver. 27. ποῦ οὖν; where, since this is the case, is boasting? ἐξεκλείσθη: for the use of the tense, cf. ἐβλήθη and ἐξηράνθη in John xv. 6; it is equivalent to, “is peremptorily, or once for, all, shut out”. διὰ ποίου νόµου; By what kind of law? In other words, How is the “law,” the divinely appointed spiritual …
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Ver. 31. vdépov οὖν καταργοῦμεν διὰ τῆς πίστεως; Do we then annul “law” through the faith we have been discuss- ing? Perhaps if Law were written with. a capital letter, it would suggest the true meaning. The Apostle speaks as from the consciousness of a Jewish objector: is all that we have ever called Law— the …
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Ver. 2f. With add’ οὐ πρὸς τὸν θεόν the Apostle summarily repels the ob- jection. ‘‘You say he has ground of boasting ? On the contrary, he has no ground of boasting in relation to God, For what does the Scripture say ? Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to Him for righteousness.” The quotation is from Ge…
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of any other sort, but that it is a miracle. It is a thing that only God can achieve, and that calls into act and manifestation all the resources of the Divine nature. It is achieved through an unparalleled of God. The miracle of the Gospel is that God comes to the ungodly, with a mercy which is righteous altoge…
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617 οκ αά μακαρισμὸς οὖν οὗτος, ἐπὶ τὴν d Gal. iv.rs. περιτομὴν, ἢ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκροβυστίαν; λέγομεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐλογίσθη mn? ’ ΄ τῷ ᾿Αβραὰμ ἡ πίστις εἰς δικαιοσύνην. IO. πῶς οὖν ἐλογίσθη ; ἐν ~ ~ > περιτομῇ ὄντι, ἢ ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ; οὐκ ἐν περιτοµῆ, GAN’ ἐν axpo- η ‘ a ἔλ -~_le re - δ , ' βυστίᾳ: 11. καὶ σημεῖον ἔλαβ…
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618 δικαιοσύνην 12. καὶ πατέρα περιτομῆς τοῖς οὐκ ἐκ περιτομῆς µόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς στοιχοῦσι ! g Ch. ix. 4; τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν ᾿Αβραάμ. Gal. iii - ~ ~ , ιά τοῖς ἴχνεσι τῆς ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ πίστεως 13. OF γὰρ διὰ νόµου ἡ ἕ ἐπαγγελία τῷ fi; Αβραὰμ ἢ τῷ σπέρµατι αὐτοῦ, τὸ κληρονόμον αὐτὸν εἶναι τοῦ” κόσμου, Eph.iL1…
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Ver. 14. κεκένωται cf. 1 Cor. i. 17, ix. 15, 2 Cor. ix. 3. κατήργηται: 2 διὰ “ 12---17. ὀργὴν κατεργάζεται: οὗ yap! οὐκ ἔστι νόμος, οὐδὲ παράβασις.. 619 16. - ’ διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ πίστεως, ἵνα Kata” χάριν, eis τὸ εἶναι βεβαίαν τὴν ἐπαγ- η Ver. 4. , ~ rt lol γελίαν παντὶ τῷ σπέρµατι, οὗ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ νόµου μόνον, ἀλλὰ …
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adjecto 1 Νὰ pater noster (Schoettgen). When Paul speaks out of his Jewish con- sciousness, he shares this pride (‘‘ whose are the fathers,’’ ix. 5); when he speaks as a Christian, to whom the Church is ‘the Israel of God” (Gal. vi. 16), and who can even say ‘we are the circum- | cision,” he claims all the Jews …
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Ver. 22. 86: because of this signal faith, evinced so triumphantly in spite of all there was to quell it. ἐλογίσθη: i.e., his faith was reckoned to him as 18—24. ἐστι καὶ ποιῆσαι. 23. Οὖκ ἐγράφη δὲ δι αὐτὸν µόνον, ὅτι ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ. 621 a 4 ’ > ~~ > , 22. 86 καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ cis δικαιοσύνη». 24. ἀλλὰ καὶ δι…
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622 ραντα Ingodv τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν ἐκ νεκρῶν, 25. ὃς παρεδόθη διὰ τὰ ο ΟΝ. v.18 παραπτώματα ἡμῶν, καὶ ἠγέρθη διὰ τὴν ° δικαίωσιν ἡμῶν. the time determined by Providence, they receive the Gospel. Hence διὰ τὴν δικαίωσιν ἡμῶν at least must be prospec- tive.* (2) The διὰ has been taken in both clauses prospectively. …
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Ver. I. δικαιωθέντες takes up em- phatically the δικαίωσιν of iv. 25: Christ’s death and resurrection have not been in vain: there are those who have actually been justified in consequence. * This, however, does not prevent us from conceiving of the resurrection of Christ as His public vindication, and the sign o…
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Ver. 2. δι οὗ καὶ: through whom also. To the fact that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ corresponds this other fact, that through Him we have had (and have) our access into this grace, etc. προσαγωγὴ has a certain touch of formality. Christ has / “introduced” us to our standing as Christians…
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Christian community: the spirit was given to Christians in virtue of their faith (Gal. iii. 2), and normally on occa- sion of their baptism (1 Cor. xii. 13, Acts xix. 1 ff.) : and it 15 this experience, pos- sibly this event, to which the participle definitely refers. What the spirit, given (in baptism) to faith…
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625 7. "μόλις γὰρ ὑπὲρ δικαίου τις ἀποθανεῖται' ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ¢ Acts xxvii. ο a ’ 9 A Στάχα τις καὶ τολμᾷ ἀποθανεῖν: 8. συνίστησι δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀγάπην 75.16: 1 Pet. iv.18. f Philem. cis ἡμᾶς 6 Oeds,! ὅτι ἔτι ἁμαρτωλῶν ὄντων ἡμῶν Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν 15. ἀπέθανε. . πολλῶ οὖν μᾶλλον, δικαιωθέντες νῶν ἐν T@ αἵ…
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love of man surpassed by the love of God. He commends, or rather makes good, presents in its true and unmistak- able character (for σνυνίστησιν, cf. iii. 5, 2 Cor. vi. 4, vii. 11 ; Gal. ii. 18), His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, etc. éavrov is an emphatic His: His, not as opposed to Chri…
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σ. 1Ο. εἰ γὰρ ἐχθροὶ ὄντες κατηλλάγημεν τῷ Θεῷ διὰ τοῦ θανάτου τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, πολλῷ μᾶλλον καταλλαγέντες σωθησόµεθα ἐν τῇ ἵωῇ αὐτοῦ: II. οὐ µόνον hiCor.i. 31. δὲ, ἀλλὰ καὶ καυχώµενοι ἐν τῷ " Θεῷ διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ 12 Cor. ν. 18 f. there love in God equal to it? Yes, when we were enemies we were recon- …
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Vers. 12-21. The treatment of the righteousness of God, as a Divine gift to sinners in Jesus Christ, is now complete, and the Apostle might have passed on to his treatment of the new life (chaps. vi.-viii.). But he introduces at this point a digression in which a comparison—which in most points is rather a cont…
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628 ἀνθρώπους ὁ θάνατος διῆλθεν, ἐφ ᾧ ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ | Vv. πάντες ἥμαρτον. . 13. ἄχρι k Philem γὰρ νόµου ἁμαρτία ἦν ἐν κόσμῳ: ἁμαρτία δὲ οὐκ " ἐλλογεῖται, μὴ | Ψν. 17,21; ὄντος νόµου: 14. GAN |] ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θάνατος ἀπὸ “Addy µέχρι Ch. vi 1a. 3 3 ~ ς lol Μωσέως καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμαρτήσαντας] ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμοιώματι τ…
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13—17. παραβάσεως “Addu, ὡς τὸ παράπτωμα, ὃς ἐστι τύπος τοῦ μέλλοντος. οὕτω καὶ τὸ Χάρισµα. 629 15. Αλλ οὐχ εἰ γὰρ τῷ τοῦ ἑνὸς παραπτώµατι οἱ πολλοὶ ἀπέθανον, πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἡ χάρις τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἡ ™ δωρεὰ ἐν χάριτι τῇ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἀνθρώπου ᾿Ιησοῦ " Χριστοῦ eis τοὺς πι John iv. A > , πολλοὺς ἐπερίσσευσε. 10; Eph.…
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Ver. 17. This verse confirms the pre- ceding. The argument is the same in kind as in ver. 15. The effects of the Fall are indubitable: still less open to doubt are the effects of the work of Christ. With οἱ τὴν περισσείαν τῆς χάριτος καὶ [τῆς δωρεᾶς] τῆς δικαιοσύνης λαμβάνοντες we again touch experience, and an…
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18--21. δίκαιοι κατασταθήσονται οἱ πολλοί. ἵνα πλεονάσηῃ τὸ παράπτωμα. 631 20. Νόμος δὲ παρεισῆλθεν, οὗ δὲ ἐπλεόνασεν ἡ ἁμαρτία, ὑπερ- επερίσσευσεν ἡ Χάρις" 21. ἵνα ὥσπερ ἐβασίλευσεν ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θανάτω, οὕτω καὶ ἡ Χάρις βασιλεύσῃ διὰ δικαιοσύνης εἰς ζωὴν ”/ A > A ~ lol , ς ~ αἰώνιον, διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ…
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612 a Ch. xi 24 Er Gol. any Tim. iv. 16. πλεονάσῃ; 2. μὴ γένοιτο. VI. 1. ΤΙ οὖν ἐροῦμεν; " ἐπιμενοῦμεν 1 τῇ ἁμαρτία, ἵνα ἡ χάρις οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι {ήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ; 3. ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε ὅτι door ἐβαπτίσθημεν εἰς Χριστὸν A © ~ , b Col. ii 12. "Inoody,” εἰς τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ ἐβαπτίσθημεν; 4. " συν…
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Ver. 4. This symbolism interpreted. συνετάφηµεν οὖν αὐτῷ κ.τ.λ.: Therefore we were buried with Him (in the act of immersion) through that baptism into His death—burial being regarded as the natural sequence of death, and a kind of seal set to its reality. Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 3 f. It introduces a false abstraction to …
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Ver. 7. 6 yap ἀποθανὼν κ.τ.λ. Here we have the general principle on which the foregoing argument rests: death annuls all obligations, breaks all ties, cancels all old scores. The difficulty is that by the words ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας Paul introduces one particular application of the principle—the one he is concerned …
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σι. 10. ὃ γὰρ ἀπέθανε, τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ἀπέθανεν ὃ δὲ Ch, Lh τῷ Θεᾷ. II. οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖς λογίζεσθε ἑαυτοὺς ~ , ~ ~ ~ ~ A νεκροὺς μὲν evar! τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Lavras δὲ τῷ Θεῷ, ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ - , = ~ 2 τῷ Κυριφ ημών. 9 > / ε ς ’ > ~ ~ 12. My οὖν βασιλευέτω ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θνητῷ 1 γεκρους µεν ειναι N®KLP; ειναι νεκρους µεν…
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Ver. 12 f. Practical enforcement of vers. 1-11. Theinner life isin union with Christ, and the outer (bodily) life must not be inconsistent with it (Weiss). ἐν τῷ θνητῷ ὑμῶν σώματι: the suggestion οἳ θνητὸς is rather that the frail body should be protected against the tyranny οί sin, than that sin leads to the de…
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636 δοῦλοι τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ὑπηκούσατε δὲ ἐκ καρδίας εἰς ὃν παρεδόθητε τύπον διδαχῆς. 18. ἐλευθερωθέντες δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐδουλώθητε , τῇ δικαιοσύνη. k Matt * Gpav. Xxvi. 41. E 3 1 ir Thess, δοῦλα τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ εἲς ἁγιασμόν. νι νο ε ’ 2) 27 ον = / v3.7) ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ. 14. 19. ᾽Ανθρώ…
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Ver. 23. The yap introduces the 617 Θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν. ΥΠ. 1. "Ἡ ἀγνοεῖτε, ἀδελφοί (γινώσκουσι γὰρ νόµον λαλῶ,) ὃτι ὁ νόµος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐφ᾽ ὅσον χρόνον Li; 2. ἡ γὰρ ὕπανδρος γυνη τῷ ζῶντι ᾿ ἀνδρὶ δέδεται νόµῳ: ἐὰν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ ἀνδρός. Cel 2 / Ej \ A ἀνηρ, κατήργηται ἄπο τοῦ…
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Ver. 4. ὥστε καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐθανατώθητε τῷ νόµῳ: the inference is drawn rather from the principle than from the example, but καὶ ὑμεῖς means “you as well as the woman in the illustration,” not “you Gentiles as well as I a Jew”. The last, which is Weiss’s interpre- tation, introduces a violent contrast of which there…
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Ver.6. νυνὶ δὲ but as things stand, con- sidering what weareas Christians. κατηρ- γήθηµεν : cf. ver. 2. We are discharged from the law, by our death to that in which we were held. But what is this? Most expositors say the law; Philippi even makes τοῦ νόµον the antecedent of ἐν ᾧ, rendering, we have been delivere…
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not have known sin but by the law. The last suits the context better: see ver. 21. On οὐκ ἔγνων without ἄν, see Winer, 383: it is possible, however (Gifford), to render simply, I did not know sin except through the law; and so also with οὐκ ἤδειν. διὰ νόµου: of course he thinks of the Mosaic law, but the absence…
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Ver. το. The result is that the com- mandment defeats its own intention; it has life in view, but it ends in death. Here also analysis only misleads. Life and death are indivisible wholes. Ver. 11. Yet this result is not due to the commandment in itself. It is in- dwelling sin, inherited from Adam, which, when …
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15. ὃ γὰρ κατεργάζοµαι, οὐ γινώσκω" οὐ γὰρ 641 os 16. εἰ δὲ ὃ 17. νυνὶ δὲ οὐκ- gHere only, > ou tempt. Weiss rightly remarks that the present tense εἶμι is determined simply by the ἐστιν preceding. Paul is con- trasting the law of God and human nature, of course on the basis of his own experience; but the c…
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Ver. 18. It is sin, and nothing but sin, that has to be taken account of in this connection, for ‘‘ I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good”. For τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν see oni. 12. ἐν ἐμοὶ = ἐν τῇ σαρκί µου = in me, regarded as a creature of flesh, apart from any relation to or affinity for God and Hi…
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643 *avOpwrov: 23. βλέπω δὲ ἕτερον νόµον ἐν τοῖς µέλεσί µου ἀντιστρα- k 2 Cor. iv. , oe a ay gas λωτί linus τευόµενον TH νόµω τοῦ νοός µου, καὶ ᾿ αἰχμαλωτίζοντά µε] τῷ νόµῳ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τῷ ὄντι ἐν τοῖς péAeot µου. 16; Eph. iii.’ 16. 12 Cor. x. 5. 24. ταλαίπωρος ἐγὼ 2 Tim. τη 6, ἄνθρωπος" τίς µε ῥύσεται ἐκ τοῦ…
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Ver. 25. The exclamation of thanks- giving shows that the longed-for deliver- ance has actually been achieved. The regenerate man’s ideal contemplation of his pre-Christian state rises with sudden joy into a declaration of his actual eman- cipation as a Christian. διὰ Ἰ. Χ. τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν: Christ is regarded as…
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brings to the believer the life which is in Christ Jesus brings with it also the Divine law for the believer’s life; but it is now, as Paul says in Gal. iii. 21, a “ yépnos 6 δυνάµενος ζωοποιῆσαι,᾽ not an impotent law written on tables of stone, -and hence righteousness comes by it; it proves more than a match f…
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νόµου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου. νόµου, ἐν ᾧ ἠσθένει διὰ τῆς σαρκός, ὁ Θεὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν πέµψας ἐν ' ὁμοιώματι σαρκὸς ἁμαρτίας καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας κατέκρινε τὴν uniquely related to God (for this is im- plied both here and in ver. 32, as con- trasted with ver. 14), anew saving power entered the world. God sent…
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645 4. Τὸ yao ἀδύνατον τοῦ b See Ch. vi. v. both in the LXX (Lev. iv. 33 and passim, Ps. xl. 6, 2 Chr. xxix. 24) and in the N.T. (Heb. x. 6, 8) in the sense of ‘sin- offering ” (usually answering to Heb. Nw, but in Isa. liii. το to ουν); but it is not formally necessary. But when the question is asked, In wha…
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παπι 4. ἵνα τὸ δικαίωµα τοῦ “νόµου πληρωθῇ ἐν ἡμῖν, τοῖς μὴ κατὰ σάρκα περιπατοῦσιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πνεῦμα. 5. Οἱ .. lol A - fol d Ch. xii. 3, γὰρ κατὰ σάρκα ὄντες τὰ τῆς σαρκος * φρονοῦσιν : οἱ δὲ κατὰ πνεῦμα, ο Ρα Ες J ii. 5; Col. τὰ του πνεύματος. 111. 2. e Only in this ch. 6. τὸ γὰρ "φρόνημα τῆς σαρκὸς θάνατο…
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Ver. 10. Consequences of this in- dwelling of Christ in the Christian. In one respect, they are not yet so complete as might be expected. τὸ μὲν capa νεκρὸν: the body, it cannot be denied, is dead because of sin: the experience we call death is inevitable for it. τὸ δὲ πγεῦμα ζωή: but the spirit (7.c., the human…
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θεοῦ and πνεῦμα χριστοῦ in ver. 9 that the Spirit of Christ is the same as the Spirit of God, and the use of χριστὸς alone in the next verse shows that this same spirit is the alter ego of Christ. Cf. Phil. i. 19; Gal. iv. 6; Eph. iii. 17. This is one of the passages in which the presuppositions of the Trinitari…
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16. αὐτὸ τὸ πνεῦμα 648 ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ γὰρ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα δουλείας πάλιν eis φόβον, ἁλλ᾽ ἐλάβετε πνεῦμα ποτ ™ ροθεσίας, ἐν ᾧ κράζοµεν, ᾿Αββᾶ, ὁ πατήρ. Eph.i' 5 * συμμαρτυρεῖ τῷ πνεύµατι ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἐσμὲν τέκνα Θεοῦ. (ch. ix. 4). ς HM , nCh. ii 15; τέκνα, καὶ κληρονόμοι - 1X. 1. o 2 Tim. ii. Χριστοῦ . τη & ” , 9 A…
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Ver. 18. The passage extending from this verse to ver. 27 is described by Lipsius as a *‘ threefold testimony to the future transfiguration which awaits suf- fering believers’’. Im vers. 19-22 there is the first testimony—the sighing of creation ; in vers. 23-25 the second, the yearning hope of Christians themse…
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Ver. 21. Contents of the hope. It makes no difference in meaning, whether we read ὅτι or διότι. αὐτὴ ἡ κτίσις: creation as well as πιαη. ἡ δουλεία τῆς φθορᾶς: a system in which nothing con- tinues in one stay, in which death claims everything, in which there is not even an analogy to immortality, is a system of …
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Ver. 24 f. This sentence explains why Paul can speak of Christians as waiting for adoption, while they are nevertheless in the enjoyment of sonship. , It is because salvation is essentially re- lated to the future. ‘We wait for it: for we were saved in hope.” The dat. τῇ ἐλπίδι is that of mode or respect. Our s…
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υπερ ηµων CKLP; but om, 2 After σννεργει, o Geos is found in AB. W. and H. bracket it, but Lachm, and Weiss regard it as the true text. It was omitted as cumbrous and unnecessary. Cf. i. 28, where ο θεος is omitted in $A in much the same way; here it is wanting in and sure as the love of God which in Christ Jesus …
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οἴδαμεν δὲ = further, we know: in a sense this is one ground more for be- 652 w Eph. i. 5, τοῖς κατὰ πρόθεσιν κλητοῖς οὖσιν. 29. ὅτι οὓς προέγνω, καὶ " προώρισε 11; 1 Cor. πο x Phil. iii. 41 (19). * συμµόρφους τῆς εἰκόνος τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν πρωτότοκον 3 Be κ ἐν πολλοῖς ἀδελφοῖς' 30. οὓς δὲ προ…
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Ver. 31. τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν πρὸς ταῦτα; the idea underlying all that precedes is that of the suffering to be endured by those who would share Christ’s glory (ver. 17). The Apostle has disparaged the suffering in comparison with the glory (ver. 18); he has interpreted it (vers. 19-27) as in a manner prophetic of the…
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654 ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ Vil. z Ver. αγ. *évruyxdver ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν 35. τίς ἡμᾶς χωρίσει ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης eb. VIL. 25. τοῦ Χριστοῦ]; θλίψις, ἢ στενοχωρία, ἢ διωγμός, ἢ λιμός, ἢ yupvd- της, % κίνδυνος, ἢ µάχαιρα; 36. (καθὼς γέγραπται, “΄Ὅτι ἕνεκά σου θανατούµεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ' ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφα- 1 tov ἄριστου; sO mo…
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Ver. 38 f. The Apostle’s personal conviction given in confirmation of all that has been said, especially of ver. 37. πέπεισµαι cf. 2 Tim. i. 12. οὔτε θάνατος οὔτε ζωὴ: death is mentioned first, either with ver. 36 in mind, or as the most tre- mendous enemy the Apostle could con- ceive. If Christ’s love can hold …
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6545 az Tim. ii. 7. IX. 1. ᾽ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑΝ λέγω ἐν μοι τῆς συνειδήσεώς µου ἐν Gentiles into it represented the carrying out of God’s purpose to bless and save men, God must have turned His back upon Himself; He must have broken His promise to Israel, and cast off His chosen people. But as this must seem impossible…
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Χριστῷ, οὐ " ψεύδοµαι, συμμαρτυρούσης Πνεύματι “Ayiw, 2. ὅτι λύπη pou ἐστὶ the fathers will be fulfilled, and all Israel saved. Gentile Christianity will provoke the unbelieving Jews to jealousy, and they too will enter the Messianic Kingdom. In the very events which seem to throw the pious Jewish mind out ofits…
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657 µεγάλη, καὶ &biddermros” ὀδύνη τῇ KapSia µου, 3. ηὐχόμην γὰρ >? Timi.3. οι Tim. vi. αὐτὸς ἐγὼ ἀνάθεμα εἶναι] ἀπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν pov, , 2%. η τῶν συγγενῶν µου κατὰ σάρκα" 4. οἵτινές εἰσιν Ἰσραηλῖται, ὧν ἡ | Eph.ii. 12. υἱοθεσία, καὶ ἡ δόξα, καὶ αἱ διαθῆκαι," 2 Νε θ Aine ee λ αι Heb. και νψοµοσεσ…
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658 f Ch. xii. 1. g Ch. xv. 8; Gal. iti.16, 21; Heb vi.1z. hCh. xi. 28. But the supreme distinction of Israel has yet to be mentioned. ἐξ ὧν 6 Χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα, 6 dy ἐπὶ πάντων beds εὐλογητὸς εἲς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ᾽Αμήν. The only point in the interpretation of this verse, in which it can be said that inter- …
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, ε ‘4 pela,’ καὶ at ἐπαγγελίαι," 5. ὧν ot πατέρες," καὶ ἐξ ὧν ὁ Χριστος τὸ κατὰ σάρκα, 6 Oy ἐπὶ πάντων Θεὸς εὐλογητὸς ! εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ἁμήν. i Ch. i 23; 2 Cor. xi. 31. the natural reference may not in any given case be precluded. Many scholars think it is precluded here. Meyer, for instance, argues that ‘‘ Pa…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.