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Romans 3:13
their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;
their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;
Verse Romans 3:13. _THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE_] This and all the following verses to the end of the 18th Romans 3:13 are found in the _Septuagint_, but not in the _Hebrew_ text; and it is mos...
THEIR THROAT ... - This expression is taken from Psalms 5:9, literally from the Septuagint. The design of the psalm is to reprove those who were false, traitorous, slanderous, etc. Psalms 5:6. The psa...
CHAPTER 3:1-20 _ 1. Objections and Their Answers. (Romans 3:1 .)_ 2. The Whole World Under Sin. (Romans 3:9 .) Romans 3:1 A number of objections are next raised and answered. “What advantage then h...
sums up THE IMPEACHMENT OF MANKIND. Romans 3:9. Paul has beaten down Jewish counter-pleas; he and his fellow-believers (we) might be supposed to have some apology in reserve: What then? do we make an...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
What then? Are we Jews out ahead? By no means. For we have already charged all Jews and Greeks with being under the power of sin, as it stands written: "There is none righteous, no not one. There is n...
THEIR. Psalms 5:9 shows that this refers to the boasters and workers of iniquity of Romans 3:5. Compare Romans 1:24; Romans 2:17;...
_an open sepulchre_ Perhaps as "_uttering abomination_." "Emitting the noisome exhalations of a putrid heart (Bp Home on Psalms 5:9)....
ἘΔΟΛΙΟΥ͂ΣΑΝ. Hebr. ‘make smooth their tongue,’ R.V. margin, Psalms 5:9 only, in Gk Bible. Prop. = deceived; form = imperf. with aor. term. cf. Thackeray, _op. cit_[107] p. 214. [107] _op. cit._ opus...
This string of quotations is adduced to justify from Scripture the assertion of Romans 3:9. On the Rabbinic practice of stringing quotations cf. S. H., who instance also Romans 9:25 f., 2 Corinthians...
17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness. 1–20. A brief statement of the true nature of the Jew’s position, to be fully dealt wi...
ΤΆΦΟΣ (G5028) могила, ΆΝΕΩΓΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΆΝΟΊΓΩ (G455) открывать. ΛΆΡΥΓΞ (G280) гортань, ΈΔΟΛΙΟΎΣΑΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΛΙΌΩ (G1387) обманывать, практиковать или использовать обма...
DISCOURSE: 1830 THE EXTENT OF MAN’S DEPRAVITY Romans 3:10. It is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gon...
AS IT IS WRITTEN— In these verses and quotations from Scripture, the Apostle is evidently giving a description of the general character and morals of the infidel Jews in his own time, when he wrote th...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:9 b - Romans 3:20. No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; Romans 3:10 as it is written, There is hone righteous, no, no...
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE (): q.d., 'What proceeds out of their heart, a...
_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...
3:13 deceit; (f-13) Psalms 5:9 . lips. (g-19) Psalms 140:3 ....
THE NEW WAY OF ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD In Romans 1:2 St. Paul has shown that both Gentile and Jew have sinned wilfully, and are under God's condemnation. He now digresses to Jewish objections against the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 SOME *JEWISH PROTESTS AGAINST PAUL’S THOUGHTS 3:1-8 V1 Someone might ask whether the *Jews received any real advanta...
(9-20) Once more the argument returns to the main track, and at last the Apostle asserts distinctly and categorically what he had already proved indirectly, that the Jew is every whit as bad as the Ge...
THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE — _i.e.,_ their speech is at once corrupt and corrupting. It is compared to a “yawning grave” — not merely to a pit into which a man may fall, but to a sort of pestif...
CHAPTER 8 JEWISH CLAIMS: NO HOPE IN HUMAN MERIT Romans 3:1 As the Apostle dictates, there rises before his mind a figure often seen by his eyes, the Rabbinic disputant. Keen, subtle, unscrupulous, a...
τάφος … ἐδολιοῦσαν is an exact quotation of Psalms 5:10 (LXX). The original seems to describe foreign enemies whose false and treacherous language threatened ruin to Israel. For the form ἐδολιοῦσαν, s...
In these verses the Apostle completes his proof of the universality of sin, and of the liability of all men, without exception, to judgment. The τί οὖν of Romans 3:9 brings back the argument from the...
ALL JUSTLY UNDER JUDGMENT Romans 3:9 A number of quotations are advanced-mostly from the Septuagint or Greek version of the Old Testament-establishing the hopeless evil of man's condition. These appl...
Paul here turned to a brief discussion of certain objections. First, "What advantage, then, hath the Jew?" He replied, "Much, every way." He then mentioned only one, which he spoke of as being "first...
SEVENTH PASSAGE (3:9-20). SCRIPTURE PROCLAIMS THE FACT OF UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION. After a general declaration, repeating the already demonstrated fact of the condemnation of Jews and Greeks (Romans 3:...
“ _Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness._ ” These four propositions refer...
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? I (speak as a man) (6) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? (7) For...
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...
13.It is further added, _Their throat is an open grave; _(100) that is, a gulf to swallow up men. It is more than if he had said, that they were devourers ( ἀνθρωποφάγους — men-eaters;) for it is an i...
Having established the great truth that God required real moral goodness, he considers the position of the Jews. Could they not plead special divine favour? Was there no advantage in Judaism? Surely t...
THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE,.... The several vices of the instruments of speech are here, and in the following verse, exposed: "the throat" is said to "be an open sepulchre", as in Psalms 5:9, s...
Their throat _is_ an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps _is_ under their lips: Ver. 13. _The poison of the asps_] Of that sort of asps that spit their venom...
Rom. 3:10-18. "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together becom...
_What then_ Well then, (may a Jew further urge,) since you grant that the Jews have the advantage of the Gentiles in point of privileges, having the oracles of God, the promises which he will never fa...
THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE; ready to swallow up and consume, as the grave did the body laid in it. Psalms 5:9. THE POISON OF ASPS; their words are destructive. Psalms 140:3....
WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW? Since God requires subjection _of heart_ from the Jew, and at the same time honors a like subjection of heart in the Gentiles, the question arises, "What advantage then hat...
ROMANS 3:1-20 1. Was anyone (Jew or Gentile) justified on their own merit? a. Were Jews or Gentiles saved by their own power? i. Both are under sin ii. How bad was their sin? 1. None righteous 2...
THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE; WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY HAVE USED DECEIT: THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS: Quotation from Psalms 5:9. 'poison of asps is under their lips'- Psalms 140:3....
9-18 Here again is shown that all mankind are under the guilt of sin, as a burden; and under the government and dominion of sin, as enslaved to it, to work wickedness. This is made plain by several p...
THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE; he proceeds to instance in the corruption of man with respect to the members of his body; and he mentions the organs of speech in four several expressions, much to t...
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit [Psalms 5:9]: _The poison of asps is under their lips_ [Psalms 140:3]:...
Tertullian Of Patience " Anger has been prohibited, our spirits retained, the petulance of the hand checked, the poison of the tongue[69] Cyprian Treatise X On Jealousy and Envy Their feet are swift...
Romans 3:13 Their G846 throat G2995 open G455 (G5772) tomb G5028 their G846 tongues G1100 deceit G1387 ...
BOTH JEW AND GENTILE ARE IN THE SAME POSITION. ALL ARE UNDER SIN (3:9-20). Paul does not want any of his readers to think therefore that this puts them in a better position than the Jews, for as he h...
‘As it is written, There is none righteous, No, not one, There is none who understands, There is none who seeks after God, They have all turned aside, They are together become unprofitable, The...
3. _The Scriptural Proof of the Guilt of the Jews._ This section forms the conclusion of the first part: ‘Every one needs this power unto salvation.' While in general it may be regarded as presenting...
_The Justification by Faith, and the Curse of the Law_. Paul addresses himself again directly to the Galatians with an expression of his indignant surprise at the folly of their relapse into Judaism,...
Romans 3:10-18. AS IT IS WRITTEN. This formula here introduces a number of Old Testament quotations, describing the moral corruption of the times of David and the prophets. Human nature being essentia...
Romans 3:13. THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE. Quoted accurately from the Greek version of Psalms 5:9. The reference is to sinful speech. The figure is either from the noxious odor, or from the insat...
THROAT (λαρυγξ). Old word, larynx.OPEN SEPULCHRE (ταφος ανεωιγμενος). Perfect passive participle of ανοιγω, "an opened grave." Their mouth (words) like the odour of a newly opened grave. "Some po...
Romans 3:9 Every Mouth Stopped. I. Perhaps some readers are aware of a feeling of disappointment at reaching this result. Not that they doubt the native depravity of mankind, or the certainty that al...
Romans 3:9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: T...
Romans 3:9. _What then? are we better than they?_ The first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans contains so horrible an account of the manners of the Gentiles, the heathen of Paul's day, that it is...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ It was a great thing to be...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ The Jews of old had a great...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ If it be so that, after all...
Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?_ If, after all, both Jew and Gentiles were under sin, what advantage had the Jew by the covenant under which he...
CONTENTS: The common guilt of both Jew and Gentile. Justification by faith, not by the law. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The sum of all sin is coming short of the glory of God for which we we...
The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs to the two preseding Chapter s, and confirms, by the words of David, the deplorable state of fallen man. Romans 3:1. _What advant...
These verses are a general statement of the condition of mankind. Wherever man goes, he leaves a trail of destruction and misery behind him. Human wickedness continually inflicts injury on others. Eve...
_What then?_ Are we better than they? No … they are all under sin. NOMINAL CHRISTIANS COMPARED WITH HEATHEN 1. Have much advantage every way (Romans 3:2). 2. Are no better. 3. Are all alike under...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:13 Paul quotes from Psalms 5:9 and Psalms 10:7. The reference to the grave
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:9.—Do we bring pleas forward on behalf of ourselves—_i.e._, in fear of a sentence of condemnation against ourselves? (Stuart.) Romans 3:10.—The apostle having mentioned that...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 3:1 (2) _Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. _In_ _this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections that might be ma...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans 3. Paul has just told the Jews that having the law does not justify a person. It is the keeping of the law that justifies one. That uncircumcision really has...
Deuteronomy 32:33; Ezekiel 13:7; Isaiah 59:3; James 3:5; Jeremiah 5:16
Open sepulchre [τ α φ ο ς α ν ε ω γ μ ε ν ο ς]. Lit., a sepulchre opened or standing open. Some explain the figure by the noisome exhalations from a tomb. Others refer it to a pit standing open and re...
SIN AND SALVATION Romans 3:9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Word of God never belittles sin. Sin, to God, is heinous. It is black, without one ray of white. Sin to God is exceeding sinful. There is nothing...
Their throat — Is noisome and dangerous as an open sepulchre. Observe the progress of evil discourse, proceeding out of the heart, through the throat, tongue, lips, till the whole mouth is filled ther...