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18. Oux avruv) SO the LXX., Ps. xxxvi. 2, oux — uvrovg — <p6(3og , fear), not to say love, of which man in his natural state knows much less. Of several passages, in which human depravity is expressed, either in the complaint of God and of the saints, or else in the confessions of the penitent, Paul has written out a part of the words, and intimates that all the rest are to be sought for out of the same places. — 6<pdaX/iuv, their eyes) The seat of reverential awe is in the eyes.
19. ’’Oa a) whatsoever . He has just now accumulated many testimonies from the law. — vo/uog, the law) Therefore the testi- mony, ver. 10, etc., brought forward from the Psalms, arraigns [strikes] the Jews .; nor ought they to think, that the accusations therein contained are against the Gentiles. Paul has brought no declaration of Scripture against the Gentiles, but has dealt with them by arguments drawn from the light of nature. — vo/jjog — i/o>w) An instance of A i/vorqg,1 [impressive vehemence in words] — ha, that) He presses this home to the Jew's. — <fro>a) mouth, bitter, ver. 14, and yet given to boasting, ver. 27. The Jews are chiefly intended here, as the Gentiles by the term world . — ysvrirai, may he made) [become] The world is aWays guilty, but it is made guilty, when the law accuses and condemns it. — <7tag, all) not even excepting the Jews. The guilt of the Gentiles, as being manifest, is presupposed ; the Jews are prose- cuted to condemnation by arguments out of the law. These are guilty ; and their condemnation completes the condemnation of the whole world as guilty.
20. A ton) for this reason, because) [Beng. connects this verse with ver. 19. But Eng. vers. c therefore ’). — yo>ou, of the law ) indefinitely put, but chiefly referring to the moral law, ver. xix. 9, ch. ii. 21-26 ; which [the moral law] alone is not made void ; ver. 31 ; for it was the works of it that Abraham was possessed of, before he received circumcision. Paul, in affirming that we are not justified by the works of the law, as opposed to faith, not to any particular law, means the wdiole law, of which the parts, rather than the species, were the ceremonial and the moral ; and of these the former, as being even then abrogated, was not so much taken into account ; the latter does not bind
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