George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Romans 1:2
Which he had promised before, &c. That is, God before, in the Scriptures, promised the blessings, which are not come by the preaching of the gospel, and that they should come by his Son. (Witham)
Which he had promised before, &c. That is, God before, in the Scriptures, promised the blessings, which are not come by the preaching of the gospel, and that they should come by his Son. (Witham)
Verse Romans 1:2. _WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE_] Both in the _law_ and in the _prophets_ God showed his purpose to introduce into the world a more _perfect_ and _glorious_ state of things; which state...
WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE - Which gospel, or which doctrines, he had before announced. BY THE PROPHETS - The word “prophets” here is used to include those who wrote as well as those who spake. It i...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. DOCTRINAL. THE SALVATION OF GOD. Chapter 1-8. CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Apostle and the Gospel of God. (Romans 1:1 .)_ 2. The Greeting. (Romans 1:7 .) 3. The Apostle's Prayer...
THE ADDRESS is elaborate, for Paul is introducing himself to a strange community; and stately, as befits Christ's ambassador approaching the imperial city. Romans 1:1 f., Romans 1:5 f. He is an apostl...
This is a letter from Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart to serve the good news of God. This good news God promised long ago, through his prophets, in the sacred writing...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
HAD. Omit. PROMISED AFORE. Greek. _proepangello._ Only here: _epangello_ occurs fifteen times; always rendered "promise", save 1 Timothy 2:10; 1 Timothy 6:21 (professing). PROPHETS. App-189. SCRIPTU...
_which he had promised afore_ This verse is not properly a parenthesis. See on Romans 1:3. The _Promise_of the great Deliverer, running through the O. T., is one of the most wonderful of the phenomena...
Ὃ Κ.Τ.Λ. This message is continuous with GOD’S earlier revelation and fulfils it, cf. Hebrews 1:1-2. ΠΡΟΕΠΗΓΓΕΊΛΑΤΟ. 2 Corinthians 9:5 only; cf. Romans 15:4;...
A. Romans 1:1-17. INTRODUCTION. ADDRESS 1–7. OCCASION 8–15. SUBJECT 16–17. 1–7. Address. The writer’s (_a_) name and state, (_b_) office, (_c_) commission defined by a statement of (i) the Person from...
ΠΡΟΕΠΗΓΓΕΊΛΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΕΠΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G4279) обещать заранее, предвещать, ΓΡΑΦΑΪΣ _dat. pl. от_ ΓΡΑΦΉ (G1124) Писание. Отсутствие артикля выделяет ΆΓΊΑΙΣ (SH)....
WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE, &C.— The Apostle, it is likely, asserts this to insinuate a good idea of the Gospel into the mind of the Jews at first setting out, and to put them upon inquiring; for eve...
_RETHINKING IN OUTLINE FORM_ PART ONE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS, Romans 1:1-15 I. Salutation. Romans 1:1-7 1. The Author. Romans 1:1 2. The Gospel in Review....
PART ONE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS, Romans 1:1-15 SALUTATION, Romans 1:1-7 _Text_ Romans 1:1-7. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be anapostle, separated unto the gospel of God,...
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE BY HIS PROPHETS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. Though the Roman church was Gentile by nation (see the note...
1 Paul dates his apostleship from the commission he received at Antioch (Act_13:2) when he was severed from the rest to preach the evangel of God to the nations. Hitherto only Jews and proselytes like...
1:2 writings,) (g-11) 'In holy writings.' there is no article in the original. The statement of the apostle is general, addressing himself, as he does, to Gentiles....
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE HEATHEN In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
WHICH HE HAD PROMISED. — More correctly, _which He promised before by His prophets in holy writ._ There is a nicety of meaning expressed by the absence of the article before this last phrase. A slight...
(1-7) In writing to the Romans, a Church to which he was personally unknown, and which might be supposed, so far as it was Jewish, to be prejudiced against him, the Apostle delivers with somewhat more...
CHAPTER 2 THE WRITER AND HIS READERS Romans 1:1 PAUL, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. So the man opens his Lord's message with his own name. We may, if we please, leave it and pass on, for to the let...
The usual salutation of the Apostle is expanded, as is natural in writing to persons whom he has not seen, into a description both of himself and of his Gospel. Both, so to speak, need a fuller introd...
ὃ προεπηγγείλατο. The Gospel is not in principle a new thing, a sub-version of the true religion as it has hitherto been known to the people of God. On the contrary, God promised it before, through hi...
THE APOSTLE'S BURNING DESIRE Romans 1:1 Upon the threshold of his greatest Epistle, Paul describes himself as a bond-servant. Such humility as his qualified him to be the medium of God's wondrous rev...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
FIRST PASSAGE (1:1-7). THE ADDRESS. The form of address usual among the ancients contained three terms: “N. to N. _greeting._ ” Comp. Acts 23:26: “Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Feli...
PREFACE. 1:1-15. THE framework of the Epistle to the Romans is, as we have seen, the same as that of the most of Paul's other Epistles: 1. An epistolary preface; 2. The body of the letter; 3. An epis...
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (2) (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures), (3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our...
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...
2._Which he had before promised_, _etc. _— As the suspicion of being new subtracts much from the authority of a doctrine, he confirms the faith of the gospel by antiquity; as though he said, “Christ c...
There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE,.... The Gospel is here further commended from the antiquity it: it was no novel doctrine, an upstart notion, but what God had conceived in his own breast from eternity. Th...
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Ver. 2. _Promised_] Foreshowed and foreshadowed in the types of the ceremonial law (which was their gospel, it was Christ in fi...
_Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ_ Though once a bitter persecutor; _called to be an apostle_ And made an apostle by that calling. The Greek, κλητος αποστολος, is literally, _a called apostle_, or _an...
WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE; he is careful to show at the outset that the gospel is no new religion, but the fulfilment of the promises made in the Old Testament to the fathers....
(WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE BY HIS PROPHETS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,)...
SALUTATION OF THE LETTER....
The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel...
ROMANS 1:1-17 1. How did Paul gain the ear of the Roman church? a. How did Paul establish a common tie with the Jews at Rome? i. Prophets ii. Quote from Scripture iii. Jesus was the seed of David...
WHICH HE PROMISED AFORE THROUGH HIS PROPHETS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, 'Which' -i.e. which gospel. The O.T. had looked forward to this message. (Romans 1:17; Romans 3:21; Romans 4:3;...
1-7 The doctrine of which the apostle Paul wrote, set forth the fulfilment of the promises by the prophets. It spoke of the Son of God, even Jesus the Saviour, the promised Messiah, who came from Dav...
WHICH HE HAD PROMISED; the meaning is not, that the history of the gospel was promised by the prophets, but that Jesus Christ, with all his benefits, (which is the direct subject of the gospel history...
which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,...
Romans 1:2 which G3739 before G4279 (G5662) through G1223 His G846 prophets G4396 in G1722 Holy G40 Scriptures...
COMMENTARY. This Letter was written by Paul to the church in Rome, and its whole stress is on ‘the Good News of God'. It commences with a description of that ‘Good News (Gospel) of God', which is wha...
‘Which he promised beforetime through his prophets in the holy scriptures,' Paul was concerned to stress that this Good News of God had not arrived unannounced. It had been promised beforetime through...
THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD (1:2-6). What that ‘Good News of God' was is now made clear, as is the fact that it had been promised beforetime through God's prophets in the Holy Scriptures. In other words Paul...
Romans 1:2. WHICH HE PROMISED BEFOREHAND. The parenthesis is unnecessary, for the whole passage is closely connected. It must be God's gospel, for He had already promised it, and this thought would ha...
_ADDRESS AND GREETING_ The Apostle conforms to the usage of his time, beginning his letters with his own name, followed by a designation of the persons addressed, to which a greeting is added. But he...
HE PROMISED AFORE (προεπηγγειλατο). First aorist middle of προεπαγγελλω for which verb see on 2 Corinthians 9:5.BY (δια). Through, by means of, intermediate agency like Matthew 1:22 which see.IN...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,_ Paul has many titles, and he delights to mention them in writing to these Christians at Rome....
CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of a lost world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: God has...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,_ in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your s...
FROM PAUL, A SERVANT OF CHRIST JESUS. The custom in the first century was for the writer to introduce himself at the beginning of a letter. CHOSEN AND CALLED BY GOD. Paul makes this strong statement o...
_Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ._ AUTHENTICATION AND SALUTATION I. The apostle. 1. Paul was not the name by which he was always known, but was assumed shortly after the commencement of his mission...
_Which He had promised afore by His prophets._ THE MESSIAH PREDICTED The Jews, throughout their history, differed from every other nation in their expectation of a Messiah. While heathen kingdoms dec...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:2 Jesus fulfilled the OT prophecy that a descendant of DAVID would rule forever. He is the Messiah (see 2 Samuel 7:12;...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:1 The Gospel as the Revelation of God’s Righteousness. This first section includes Paul’s opening greeting (vv. Romans 1:1), thanksgiving (vv....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 1:2_ The gospel long promised.—A scheme long in preparation, the carrying out of which seems long delayed, may be expected to be of great value and importanc...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 1:1 I. INTRODUCTORY. ROMANS 1:1 A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's mind is...
This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens his epistle to the Romans declaring: Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God...
Acts 10:43; Acts 26:6; Luke 24:26; Luke 24:27; Romans 3:2;...
Had promised afore [π ρ ο ε π η γ γ ε ι λ α τ ο]. Only here in the New Testament. Rev., He promised afore. Paul's Old Testament training is manifest. Naturally, in beginning the more precise descripti...
THE GOSPEL OF GOD Romans 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a SERVANT...
Which he promised before — Of old time, frequently, solemnly. And the promise and accomplishment confirm each other. Deuteronomy 18:18; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 53:1;...
That is, Which gospel God had promised before by his holy prophets speaking in the holy scriptures. Where note, 1. The antiquity of the gospel, how ancient that doctrine is, even as old as the prophet...