without law , as he presently after says aptly, they shall he judged by law. — ev vg/au)) [in, or] with the law, not, [as the heathen], dvofiug, without law, i.e. since they had the law. — bid vo/j.ov, by the law ) ch. iii. 20.
13. O u yap, for not) A Proposition [Statementof Subject] clearly standing forth, the words of which have respect also to the Gentiles, but are particularly adapted to the Jews ; concerning the former, ver. 14, etc. treats; concerning the latter, ver. 17, etc. ; wherefore, also, ver. 16 depends on ver. 15, not on ver. 12. They have caused much confusion, who enclosed within a parenthesis the passage beginning at the 14th, nay, rather at the 13th verse, and ending with the 15. — oi dxpoarai, hearers ), in- active, however sedulous [in hearing] they may be. — napd rti ®e<p, before [with] God) ver. 2. — noir^a'i, doers ) namely, if men have shown themselves to be doers, ch. x. 5. They may do things pertaining to the law, but they cannot prove [warrant] themselves to be the doers of the zohole law. — bntatwQrigovrat, shall be justified) This verb, in contradistinction to the noun bixaioi, which denotes men actually righteous, involves a condition, which is to be per- formed, and then [the condition being fulfilled] the declaration of their being righteous, as about to follow [as the consequence] in the day of the divine judgment.
14. "Orav, when) After Paul has finished the refutation of the perverse judgment of the Jews against the Gentiles, he next proceeds to show the true judgment of God against the latter. He treats here of the Gentiles more directly, for the purpose of convicting them ; and yet, what is granted to them in passing, is granted with this end in view, that the J ew may be dealt with the more heavily; but ver. 26 treats' of the Gentiles quite in- cidentally, in order to convict the Jew. Wherefore, orav, when, is used here [ver. 14] ; lav, if, there [ver. 26]. — ydp for) He gives the reason, why the Gentiles should also be required to be the doers of the law ; for when they do ever so little of it, they recognise their obligations to obey it. And yet he shows, that they cannot be justified by the law of nature, or by their own- selves. There are four sentences beginning with the words : when — these — who — the conscience bearing witness along with. The second is explained by the third, the first by the fourth. — Uvf) Not, rd tdvn ; some individuals of the Gentiles ; and yet there