Verse 24. _FOR THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED_, .] In _Debarim_ _rabba_, sect. 2, fol. 251, it is said:-"The rulers destroy the influence of their own words among the people and this is done when a ra...
THE NAME OF GOD - The name and character of the true God. IS BLASPHEMED - Note, Matthew 9:3. That is, your conduct is such as to lead the pagan world to blaspheme and reproach both your religion and i...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Gentile Moralist and Reformer and His Condemnation. (Romans 2:1 .)_ 2. The Two Classes. (Romans 2:7 .) 3. The State of the Jew. (Romans 2:17 .)...
Now Paul accosts the Jew, reproving his PRIDE OF LAW, MADE VOID BY DISLOYALTY. Romans 2:17. His pretensions (But if thou bearest the name of Jew, etc.), provoke the questions of Romans 2:21 : the comm...
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVILEGE (Romans 2:1-11)...
If you are called by the name of Jew, if you take your rest in the Law, if you boast in God and know his will, if you give your approval to the excellent things, if you are instructed in the Law, if y...
BLASPHEMED. Compare Acts 13:45. AMONG. Greek. _en_. App-104. IT IS WRITTEN. Compare Ezekiel 36:20; Ezekiel 23:23 KEEP. practice, as in...
_as it is written_ In Ezekiel 36:20-23. In that passage the special reference is to the evil example of the dispersed Jews of the captivity....
17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness....
The nexus is marked by the particles—οὖν (21) sums up the privileges and introduces, in the form of questions, the contrast in the actual facts; γὰρ (24) implies the answer yes to the preceding questi...
ΤῸ ΓᾺΡ ὌΝΟΜΑ Κ.Τ.Λ. Isaiah 52:5; the words are adopted (practically in LXX[92] form), but in a new sense. Here of the contempt brought upon the Name of GOD by the lives of His professed worshippers; c...
ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΕΊΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΈΩ (G987) богохульствовать, ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать; здесь используется для ввода цитаты из авторитетного источника (ММ)....
_TEXT_ Romans 2:17-24. But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, Romans 2:18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instru...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 16 Much of the judgment which obtains among men is unjust and oppressive because of their inability to uncover the real truth: But in the divine judgment the _ hidden _ thing...
2:24 written. (f-18) See Isaiah 52:5 ; Ezekiel 36:20-23 ....
Cp. Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:21. 25-29. The Jew thought that because he was circumcised, i.e. a member of the covenant people, he was sure of God's favour. But circumcision implied a surrendered life,...
THE FAILURE OF THE JEWS In Romans 1 St. Paul showed that the Gentiles were under God's judgment on account of sin. Now he is about to turn to the Jews. He asserts first, that God's judgment will fall...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL’S ANSWERS TO THOSE WHO *JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE 2:1-16 1. THEY CANNOT AVOID GOD’S JUDGEMENT 2:1-4 v1 So, you who *...
THROUGH YOU. — _Because of you._ AS IT IS WRITTEN. — From the LXX. version of Isaiah 52:5. The sense of the original is that the name of God is dishonoured by the enslavement and oppression of His peo...
And this is only what Scripture bids us expect. The Scripture quoted is Isaiah 52:5, LXX. The LXX interpret the Hebrew by inserting διʼ ὑμᾶς and ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. Both insertions are in the line of the...
HE REQUIRES HEART-OBEDIENCE Romans 2:21 The Jew relied upon the position given him by the privileges and rites of Judaism, although his religious life, as such, had shrunk within these outward things...
It is evident that the apostle here turned to the Jew, though he did not immediately name him. He charged the Jew with the sin of practicing the very evils he condemned in the Gentiles. He is at least...
The apostle here only repeats the reproaches which the prophets had repeated so often before, that the Jews, by the contrast between their lives and the sanctity of their religion, had been the cause...
The _second part_ of the chapter, Romans 2:17-29, contains _the application_ of the principles laid down in the first. After expressing himself in a general and more or less abstract way, Paul address...
FIFTH PASSAGE (2:1-29). THE WRATH OF GOD SUSPENDED OVER THE JEWISH PEOPLE. In the midst of this flood of pollutions and iniquities which Gentile society presents to view, the apostle sees one who lik...
“ _And if, then, thou who teachest another, teachest not thyself, if preaching a man should not steal, thou stealest, if, while saying a man should not commit adultery, thou committest adultery, if, a...
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, (18) And knowest will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; (19) And a...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
24._For the name of God, etc. _I think this quotation is taken from Ezekiel 36:20, rather than from Isaiah 52:5; for in Isaiah there are no reproofs given to the people, but that chapter in Ezekiel is...
Two things are presented here with respect to God; His judgment against evil the evil-doer shall not escape (the real difference of right and wrong would be maintained by judgment); and His mercy, pat...
FOR THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED,.... The being and perfections of God, such as his holiness, omniscience, and omnipotence, are denied, or evil spoken of; and also the law of God, and the forms of wo...
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. Ver. 24. _For the name of God, &c._] Heretics and hypocrites do still with Judas deliver up the Lord Christ to the...
_Thou therefore which teachest another_ And valuest thyself upon thy ability to do it, trusting therein for acceptance with God; _teachest thou not thyself?_ He does not teach himself, who does not pr...
IS BLASPHEMED; spoken against and dishonored. THROUGH YOU; on account of the wicked conduct of the Jews as God's professed people, as it was of old. Isaiah 52:5; EZEKIEL 36:23. Members of the church w...
FOR THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES THROUGH YOU, AS IT IS WRITTEN. Here the apostle addresses himself directly to the Jews, whom he had evidently had in mind principally in the entire...
The guilt of the Jews:...
THE CASE OF THE CULTURED GREEK But there is a class of Gentiles who are quite keen in seeing these evils in others, and unhesitatingly judging them for them, while never considering that the same judg...
Romans 2:17-29 1. What is the difference between an inward Jew and an outward Jew? a. What was an outward Jew? i. Circumcised ii. Good self-image 1. Name Jew means a lot to him 2. Rested in the...
FOR THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU, EVEN AS IT IS WRITTEN. Quotation from Isaiah 2:5. The Jews were so jealous for the Name of God, that they wouldn't pronounce it, a...
17-24 The apostle directs his discourse to the Jews, and shows of what sins they were guilty, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. A believing, humble, thankful glorying in God, is...
THROUGH YOU; because of your and your forefathers sins. AS IT IS WRITTEN: the apostle doth not tell them where it was written; he supposeth they were not ignorant of it: see ISAIAH 52:5 EZEKIEL 36:20,...
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written. [Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:20-23. By their conduct the Jews had fulfilled the words of Isaiah and the meaning...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Nomen enim Dei blasphematur propter ipsos."[221] Tertullian On Idolatry blasphemy it has been said, "By your means My Name is blasphemed,"[101] Tertullian A...
Romans 2:24 For G1063 name G3686 God G2316 blasphemed G987 (G5743) among G1722 Gentiles G1484 because G1223 you...
‘For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.' Indeed he declares that as a result of their activity the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, an...
THE SPECIAL CASE OF THE JEW. PAUL IS ANSWERING THE QUESTION - ‘DOES NOT HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW AND THE UNDERSTANDING THAT GOES WITH IT, ALONG WITH THE FACT THAT HE IS CIRCUMCISED INTO GOD'S COVENANT...
2. THE SINFULNESS OF THE JEWS, AS A PROOF OF THEIR NEED OF THE GOSPEL. This passage contains the second part of the proof of the universality of sin, and hence of the universal need of the gospel, whe...
_2. The Jew is Condemned; His External Circumcision does not Avail._ This section contains the direct application to the case of the Jew, in the form of an indignant outburst (Romans 2:17-24), much of...
Romans 2:24. FOR. This word is not found in Isaiah 52:5, the passage here quoted (from the LXX.). Paul inserts it to show that he has applied it in his own way. That he does not cite it as a fulfilled...
BECAUSE OF YOU (δι' υμας). Free quotation from the LXX of Isaiah 52:5. The Jews were jealous for the Name of God and would not pronounce the Tetragrammaton and yet acted so that the Gentiles blasph...
Romans 2 The Practical Outcome of Judaism. I. The first thing on which St. Paul lays anxious stress in this passage is this: The judgment of God according to men's works is just, inevitable, and impa...
CONTENTS: The equal standing of Jew and Gentile before the justice of God. Morality apart from Christ useless as means of salvation. Jews knowing the law condemned by the law. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLU...
Romans 2:1. _Therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man,_ whether Roman or Jew, who judgest another, and doest the same thing thyself, though it may be in some other way. But as the judgment of God is acc...
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. The quotation is from Isaiah 52:5 in the Septuagint. Their greed, their cheating, and their hypocrisy were well known to the Gentiles. And the Gentiles judged the Law of Moses by w...
_Behold, thou art called a Jew._ THE JEWS ALSO WITHOUT EXCUSE Hitherto the apostle, in seeking to shut up the Jew unto the faith of Christ, has contented himself with an enunciation of the equitable...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:24 Because they violated the law, the Jews were exiled by God. Their military and political defeats dishonored God because they were known as his people. Although the Jews did...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:21 The Jews fail to practice the law they proclaim. Thus they will face judgment. ⇐ ⇔
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:1 Most interpreters say that Paul focuses on the sin of the Jews throughout this chapter. Another view is that the sin of the moral person (whether Jewish or Gentile) who judge...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 2:18.—κατηχούμενος, being orally instructed. Romans 2:21.—This verse may be illustrated out of the Jewish writings, for they say, “He who teacheth others what he doth not hims...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 2:1 (_b_) _Those who judge others, not excepting the Jews. _Here a new stage of the argument, in proof of the position propounded in Romans 1:18, begins, and is continued to the end...
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judges (Romans 2:1): You see, I read this list and I say, "Oh, yes, it is horrible. My, I just don't know what we are going to do, the w...
1 Timothy 5:14; 1 Timothy 6:1; 2 Samuel 12:14; Ezekiel 36:20;...
Isaiah 52:5...