Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things so ever the Law saith it saith to them who are under the Law, that every mouth maybe stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.
Now we know that what things so ever the Law saith it saith to them who are under the Law, that every mouth maybe stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.
Verse 19. _WHAT THINGS SOEVER THE LAW SAITH_] That the word _law_, here, does not mean the _pentateuch_, is evident from the preceding quotations, not one of which is taken from that work. Either the...
NOW WE KNOW - We all admit. It is a conceded plain point. WHAT THINGS SOEVER - Whether given as precepts, or recorded as historical facts. Whatever things are found in the Law. “The law saith.” This m...
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)...
We know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are within the law, and the function of the law is that every mouth should be silenced and that the whole world should be known to be liable to...
KNOW. Greek. _oida._ App-132. LAW. See Romans 2:12. SAITH. Greek. _laleo._ App-121. UNDER. Greek. App-104. EVERY MOUTH. No partiality for the Jew. STOPPED. closed. Greek. _phrasso_. Here; 2 Corint...
_the law_ Here not the Pentateuch, but the O. T. as a whole. So John 10:34; John 15:25. The O. T. does indeed predict and reveal much of redeeming mercy; but its main characteristic work (apart from p...
ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ ΔῈ. What is the connexion? The disadvantage of the Jew has been shown not to be complete—Scripture being adduced to support the statement that all are under sin. So far Jew and Gentile are equ...
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...
ΟΪΔΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΪ́ΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ (VA, 28187). ΌΣ _асс. pl. от_ ΔΣΟΣ (G3745) сколький; здесь: что бы ни. ΛΈΓΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говори...
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...
THE LAW SAITH— It appears here, that this word _law_ sometimes signifies the Old Testament in general; for not one of the quotations above is taken from the Pentateuch. Instead of _that every mouth ma...
_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...
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. NOW WE KNOW THAT WHAT THI...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 19 The passages from the Psalms might be turned by the Jews to apply to the nations. But the apostle rightly insists that what is written in the law is binding upon those und...
3:19 under (l-15) Lit. 'in' _ en_ . be (m-28) i.e. 'become in that state,' not future, but the existing consequence....
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...
THEM WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW] i.E. the Jews. BECOME GUILTY BEFORE] RV 'be brought under the judgment of.'...
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...
In order to bring home this testimony of Scripture more directly to the Jews, and to prevent any subterfuge by which they might attempt to shift the reference from themselves on to the Gentiles, the A...
(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...
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...
At this point the first great division of the epistle closes, that which began with chap. Romans 1:18, and has been occupied with asserting the universal prevalence of sin. “We know that whatever the...
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...
(5) Now we know that what things soever the (m) law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that (6) every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become (n) guilty before God. (5) He prov...
_And all the world may be made subject to God. That is, God permitted these sins in all men, that sanctification and salvation might be from Christ only, the Redeemer of all men, so that neither Jew n...
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:...
“ _Now we know that what things soever the law saith_, _it speaketh for them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become subject to judgment before God. Seeing...
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...
19._Now we know, etc. _Leaving the Gentiles, he distinctly addresses his words to the Jews; for he had a much more difficult work in subduing them, because they, though no less destitute of true right...
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...
NOW WE KNOW THAT WHAT THINGS SOEVER THE LAW SAITH,.... By "the law" is meant, not the law of nature, nor the civil law of nations, nor the ceremonial law of the Jews, nor barely the five books of Mose...
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Ver. 19. _Guilty_] Culpable...
_Now what things soever the law saith_ That is, the Old Testament, for these quotations are not made from any part of the five books of Moses, but from the Psalms and Prophets; _it saith to them that...
WE KNOW; are certain that this description given in THE LAW, or the Bible, concerning men, applies to those who are UNDER THE LAW, who have the Bible. Of course it describes the natural character and...
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...
GUILTY BEFORE GOD: Or, subject to the judgment of God...
__ Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of G...
19,20 It is in vain to seek for justification by the works of the law. All must plead guilty. Guilty before God, is a dreadful word; but no man can be justified by a law which condemns him for breakin...
Another anticipation of an objection, to this purpose: All these testimonies (might the Jews say) do not concern us, they concern the impure and Gentile world only, unless possibly some profane wretch...
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law [i. e., to the Jews]; _that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgmen...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V and had brought in "all the world as guilty (before God)," and had "stopped every mouth,"[633]...
Romans 3:19 Now G1161 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 whatever G3745 law G3551 says G3004 (G5719) says...
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...
‘Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God,' The main emphasi...
THUS THE LAW ENSURES THAT ALL ARE FOUND GUILTY BEFORE GOD (3:19-20). The consequence of all that has been described is that all men without exception are found by ‘the Law' (the Scriptures) to be gui...
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...
Romans 3:19. NOW WE KNOW. As in chap. Romans 2:2, a truth admitted by all his readers is thus introduced. The Apostle's argument is that these Scripture passages must apply to the Jews as well as to t...
THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE STOPPED (ινα παν στομα φραγη). Purpose clause with ινα and second aorist passive subjunctive of φρασσω, old verb to fence in, to block up. See 2 Corinthians 11:10. Stopping m...
BECOME Be brought under the judgment of God....
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 3:19. _Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by t...
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...
NOW WE KNOW. The things which Paul has just quoted are part of the Law, and apply to Jews. TO STOP ALL HUMAN EXCUSES. Every excuse of the Jew has been demolished by the Law. AND BRING THE WHOLE WORLD....
_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...
_Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law._ THE LAW I. Its claims--are universal. II. Its teachings--distinct and authoritative. III. Its effects--...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:19 These verses represent the conclusion of vv. Romans 3:9 and all of Romans 1:18. All humans, witho
_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...
1 Corinthians 1:29; 1 Corinthians 9:20; 1 Corinthians 9:21; 1 Samuel 2:9;...
We know. Often in Paul, of a thing generally conceded. Saith - speaketh [λ ε γ ε ι - λ α λ ε ι]. See on Matthew 28:18. The former contemplates the substance, the latter the expression of the law. Ma...
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...
LAW AND GRACE Romans 3:19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The meaning and scope of the Law. Law is a word filled with glory, but wholly foreign to Grace. Law is the measure of the holy requirements of a righ...
Whatsoever the law — The Old Testament. Saith, it saith to them that are under the law — That is, to those who own its authority; to the Jews, and not the gentiles. St. Paul quoted no scripture agains...
Observe here, Lest the Jews should think to elude or evade the force of the foregoing testimonies concerning man's corruption and depravation, as not belonging to them, but to the Gentiles only; he te...