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Romans 3:25
whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
ROMANS 3:25 dia. @th/j# pi,stewj {C} On the one hand, the article may have been added by copyists who wished to point back to dia. pi,stewj VIhsou/ Cristou/ in ver. Romans 3:22. On the other hand,...
Verse 25. _WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH_] Appointed and published to be a _propitiation_, ιλαστηριον, the _mercy-seat_, or _place_ of atonement; because the blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled on and bef...
WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH - Margin, “Fore-ordained” (προέθετο proetheto). The word properly means, “to place in public view;” to exhibit in a conspicuous situation, as goods are exhibited or exposed fo...
3. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED. Justification, what it is and what it Includes. Chapter 3:21-5:11. CHAPTER 3:21-31 _ 1. The Righteousness of God Manifested. (Romans 3:21 .)_ 2. Just and Just...
A new chapter opens in human history the achievement of REDEMPTION IN CHRIST JESUS. Romans 3:21. In the desperation to which man's sin, brought home to him by the Law, has reduced him, a manifestation...
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...
HATH. Omit. SET FORTH. foreordained (margin) Greek. _protithemi._ See Romans 1:13. TO BE. as. PROPITIATION. Greek. _hilasterion._ Only here and Hebrews 9:5. The word comes to us from the Septuagint....
_hath set forth_ Lit. DID SET FORTH; the aorist (see on Romans 3:23). The Gr. verb bears also the derived meaning "to purpose, design," (so Ephesians 1:9), which would not be unsuitable here. But the...
The failure of Jew and Gentile alike is met by the new dispensation of the Gospel, with the condition it demands of man, faith. The argument having explained ‘the revelation of wrath,’ returns to the...
ὋΝ ΠΡΟἙΘΕΤΟ Κ.Τ.Λ., explains in a very condensed way how GOD redeems man by Christ Jesus. ΠΡΟΈΘΕΤΟ, cf. πεφανέρωται, Romans 3:21; cf. Hebrews 9:26. V[112] occurs only Romans 1:13;...
ΠΡΟΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4388) ставить перед; _med._ намереваться, планировать или строить замыслы открыто (SH). ΊΛΑΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ (G2435) то, что искупает или примиряет, средство иск...
DISCOURSE: 1833 THE JUSTICE OF GOD IN JUSTIFYING SINNERS Romans 3:24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation...
WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH, &C.— See the note on Exodus 25:17. The Alexandrian copy omits the words δια πιστεως _by faith,_ which seems conformable to the sense of the Apostle here. He says that God hath...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:21-26. But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Romans 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in J...
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; WHOM GOD HATH SET FORT...
_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...
3:25 mercy-seat, (q-7) I do not think this word can be used for '[a] propitiatory [sacrifice]' or 'propitiation;' it certainly is not the habitual use in the LXX; and we have the two parts of the wor...
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...
PROPITIATION] i.e. that which makes it possible for God to be propitious, or favourable to man. IN HIS BLOOD] RV 'by his blood,' i.e. Christ became a propitiation by shedding His blood. DECLARE] RV 's...
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...
(21-26) This then introduces the solemn enunciation, repeated more fully from Romans 1:16, of the great subject of the Epistle, the declaration of that new scheme by which, through Christ, God had rem...
HATH SET FORTH. — Rather, _set forth, publicly exhibited,_ in the single act of the death upon the cross. A PROPITIATION. — The Greek word properly means “that which renders propitious.” Here, “that w...
The death of Christ had a twofold object or final cause: — (1) It was to be, like the sacrifices of the old covenant, an offering propitiatory to God, and actualised in the believer through faith. (2)...
CHAPTER 9 THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE Romans 3:21 So then "there is silence" upon earth, that man may hear the "still, small voice," "the sound of stillness," 1 Kings 19:12 from the heavens. "T...
The universal need of a Gospel has now been demonstrated, and the Apostle proceeds with his exposition of this Gospel itself. It brings what all men need, a righteousness of God (see on Romans 1:17);...
f. But the question whether the word ἀπολύτρωσις involves of itself a reference to the cost at which the thing is accomplished is after all of minor consequence: that cost is brought out unambiguously...
ALL FREELY JUSTIFIED BY GRACE Romans 3:21 From the universal need the Apostle turns to the all-sufficient remedy. The Law and the Prophets hinted dimly at justification by faith, but did not unveil i...
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...
(10) Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his (x) blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that (y) are past, through the (z) forbearance of God; (10) G...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Quem proposuit Deus propitiationem, _Greek: ilasterion. Some read propitiatorium, as I find it in the Council of Trent, Session 6. cap. ii._...
“ _Whom He had established beforehand as a means of propitiation through faith,by His blood, for the demonstration of His justice, because of the tolerance shown toward sins done aforetime, during the...
EIGHTH PASSAGE (3:21-26). THE FACT BY WHICH JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IS ACQUIRED FOR US. We have already proved that Romans 3:21 is directly connected in sense with Romans 1:17 (see p. 99). In the inter...
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (22) Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all...
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...
25._Whom God hath set forth, etc. _The Greek verb, προτίθεναι, means sometimes to determine beforehand, and sometimes to set forth. If the first meaning be taken, Paul refers to the gratuitous mercy o...
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...
WHOM GOD HAD SET FORTH TO BE A PROPITIATION,.... Redemption by Christ is here further explained, by his being "a propitiation": which word may design either Christ the propitiator, the author of peace...
Whom God hath set forth _to be_ a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; Ver. 25. _To be a prop...
Rom. 3:25, 26. "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declar...
_Whom God hath set forth_ Before angels and men: hath in his infinite mercy exhibited to us in the gospel, _to be a propitiation_ Greek, ιλαστηριον, _a propitiatory_, or mercy-seat, where mercy may be...
SET FORTH; exhibited. PROPITIATION; propitiatory sacrifice. THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD; that the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ may benefit a man, he must appropriate it to himself through faith i...
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 3:21-31 1. How can one be justified by faith? a. Justification by faith as related to the law i. Was justification tied to the law? 1. Apart from the law 21 2. Apart from works of the law...
SET FORTH: Or, foreordained REMISSION: Or, passing over...
WHOM GOD SET FORTH TO BE. PROPITIATION, THROUGH FAITH, IN HIS BLOOD, TO SHOW HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE OF THE PASSING OVER OF THE SINS DONE AFORETIME, IN THE FORBEARANCE OF GOD; 'Set forth' -publicl...
21-26 Must guilty man remain under wrath? Is the wound for ever incurable? No; blessed be God, there is another way laid open for us. This is the righteousness of God; righteousness of his ordaining,...
WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH; i.e. God the Father hath proposed this JESUS, in the eternal counsel, and covenant of redemption, EPHESIANS 1:9 1 PETER 1:20,21; or in the types and shadows of the old taberna...
whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;...
Origen Commentary on John Book I And so one might venture to say that wisdom is anterior to all the thoughts that are expressed in the titles of the first-born of every creature. Now God is altogethe...
Romans 3:25 whom G3739 God G2316 forth G4388 (G5639) propitiation G2435 by G1722 His G846 blood G129 through...
GOD HAS PROVIDED A WAY BY WHICH MEN CAN BE ACCOUNTED AS IN THE RIGHT BEFORE GOD (3:21-4:25). Paul has spent a considerable time, from Romans 1:18 onwards, in demonstrating that all are under sin (weig...
‘Whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God, for the showing, I s...
Romans 3:25. WHOM. The personal redeemer Christ Jesus stands immediately connected with justification; how is here declared (Romans 3:25; Romans 3:20). G OD SET FORTH. One historical fact is spoken of...
2. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS BY FAITH. The theme of this second main division of the doctrinal part of the Epistle may be found in Romans 3:21: (1.) The righteousness of God apart from the law has bee...
1. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS TO ALL, JEW AND GENTILE, BY FAITH. The section opens (Romans 3:21) with the statement of the theme of this division, as contrasted with Romans 3:20; Romans 3:22-26 set for...
SET FORTH (προεθετο). Second aorist middle indicative. See on Romans 1:13 for this word. Also in Ephesians 1:9, but nowhere else in N.T. God set before himself (purposed) and did it publicly before...
PROPITIATION Literally, a propitiatory sacrifice, through faith by his blood; (Greek, "hilastērion", "place of propitiation"). The word occurs, (1 John 2:2); (1 John 4:10) as the translation of the...
Romans 3:21 Paul's Evangel. The history of God's relations with human sin breaks into two before Christ, and after Christ. The death of Christ, which marks the point of division, is at the same time...
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 3:1. _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...
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? 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._ It was a great thing to be...
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 3:9. 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...
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...
GOD OFFERED HIM. Blood is often the symbol of death, and it is by the death of Christ the totality of his sacrifice that he is the _means_ [propitiation = means] by which sins are forgiven. Christ die...
_But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested._ THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS I. Prepared by God. Devised; approved; conferred by Him. II. Attested by the law and the prophets. III...
_Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation: _ I. Speak of Christ as a propitiation, or show what His being said to be a propitiation for sin may imply in it-- 1. That He was appointed by God the...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:25 Jesus’ BLOOD “propitiated” or satisfied God’s wrath (Romans 1:18). Thus he could forgive sinners while also maintaining his holiness. Some scholars arg
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:21 The Saving Righteousness of God. Paul now explains that people can have a right standing with God only through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:22. BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE.—Faith apprehends and appropriates a personal mediator. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.—Our participation by f...
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 John 1:10; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Timothy 1:15;...
Set forth [π ρ ο ε θ ε τ ο]. Publicly, openly [π ρ ο]; correlated with to declare. He brought Him forth and put Him before the public. Bengel, "placed before the eyes of all;" unlike the ark of the co...
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...
Whom God hath set forth — Before angels and men. A propitiation — To appease an offended God. But if, as some teach, God never was offended, there was no need of this propitiation. And, if so, Christ...