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Romans 3:7
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
ROMANS 3:7 de, {B} A majority of the Committee, feeling that Paul’s argument requires a parallel between verses Romans 3:5 and Roma...
Verse Romans 3:7. JEW. _FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD_, c.] But to resume my reasoning (Romans 3:5:) If the faithfulness of God in keeping his promise made to our fathers is, through our unfaithfulness, ma...
FOR IF ... - This is an objection similar to the former. It is indeed but another form of the same. THE TRUTH OF GOD - His truth or faithfulness in adhering to his threatenings. God threatened to pun...
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...
JEWISH PROTESTS SILENCED. Romans 3:1. What then, it is asked, is the advantage of being a Jew, etc.? Romans 3:2. Much, Paul replies, in every way: to begin with, they were entrusted with the oracles...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
What, then, is the something plus which belongs to a Jew? Or what special advantage belongs to those who have been circumcised? Much in every way. In the first place, there is this advantage--that the...
HATH MORE ABOUNDED. abounded, as Romans 5:15; Romans 15:13. Greek. _perisseuo._ Literally overflow. See 2 Corinthians 8:2, &c. THROUGH. Greek. _en_. App-104. LIE. Greek. _pseusma._ O
_For if_, &c. Here St Paul takes up the Opponent on his own ground; speaking as a human being whose sin (e.g. a falsehood) serves to make God's truth "abound to His glory;" i.e. be more largely manife...
The Divine Judge will not connive at sin 3 8. _For what if some_, &c. Romans 3:3-8 form a passage of much difficulty in detail, though clear as a whole. The difficulty results partly from a doubt as t...
ΕἸ ΔῈ. The difficulty is restated more fully and is shown to imply the principle that ‘the end justifies the means’; and that is a _reductio ad absurdum_ of the argument. ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι Ἐ. Ψ. = in the fact...
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...
ΈΝ (G1722) посредством, через. Об instr. использовании _предл. см._ МТ, 252f. ΨΕΫ́ΣΜΑ (G5582) ложь, ΈΠΕΡΊΣΣΕΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΩ (G4052) быть в изобилии. расти, ΚΆΓΏ (G2504) = ΚΑΙ έγ...
FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD, &C.— The particle _for_ joins what follows in this verse, to _vengeance,_ or _wrath,_ in the fifth, and shews it to be a continuation of the objection begun there. But the who...
_TEXT_ Romans 3:1-9 a. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? Romans 3:2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God. Romans 3:3 Fo...
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD HATH MORE ABOUNDED THROUGH MY LIE - i:e., If His faithfulness i...
_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...
3:7 abounded (d-12) Or 'has more abounded by my lie.' In the translation in the text the thought is 'he remained true in spite of my failure.'...
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...
FOR] RV 'but.'...
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...
III. (1-8) Continuing the subject, but with a long digression in Romans 3:3 _et seq._ The Apostle asks, What is the real value of these apparent advantages? He is about to answer the question fully, a...
THE TRUTH OF GOD. — In the first instance His veracity as involved in His threats and promises, and then those other attributes, especially justice, that are intimately connected with this. “Truth” is...
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...
It might easily seem, at this point, as if the Apostle's argument had proved too much. He has shown that the mere possession of the law does not exempt the Jew from judgment, but that God requires its...
f. These verses are extremely difficult, and are interpreted variously according to the force assigned to the τί ἔτι κἀγὼ of Romans 3:7. Who or what supplies the contrast to this emphatic “I also”? So...
GOD FAITHFUL THOUGH MEN BE FAITHLESS Romans 3:1 The Jewish people had a great treasure entrusted to them for the benefit of the whole world. This position as stewards for mankind conferred upon them...
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...
(3) For if the (i) truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? (3) A third objection, which adds somewhat to the former: if sins turn out to t...
SIXTH PASSAGE (3:1-8). JEWISH PREROGATIVE DOES NOT IMPLY EXEMPTION FROM JUDGMENT. The order of thought in this piece, one of the most difficult, perhaps, in the Epistle, is as follows: 1. If the Jew...
“ _For if the truth of God hath abounded through my lie unto His glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? And not, Let us do evil as we are accused of doing, and as some falsely pretend that we te...
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...
7._If indeed _(92) _the truth of God, etc. _This objection, I have no doubt, is adduced in the person of the ungodly; for it is a sort of an explanation of the former verse, and would have been connec...
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...
FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD,.... The "truth of God" is the same with "the righteousness of God", Romans 3:5, and means his faithfulness; of which it is hypothetically said, it HATH MORE ABOUNDED; or has...
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Ver. 7. _For if the truth of God_] Here the former objection is repeated, explicated, a...
_For_ Or _but_ (the objector may reply) _if the truth of God hath more abounded_ Has been more abundantly shown; _through my lie_ If my lie, that is, practice contrary to truth, conduces to the glory...
THROUGH MY LIE; if when I am false, God shows his truth in punishing me as he has declared, and thus glorifies himself, why am I to blame? Because you were false; you felt wrong, and did wrong. When a...
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...
BUT IF THE TRUTH OF GOD THROUGH MY LIE ABOUNDED UNTO HIS GLORY, WHY AM. ALSO STILL JUDGED AS. SINNER? 'The supposed objector is persistent..'If my falsehood makes God's truth shine more brightly by c...
1-8 The law could not save in or from sins, yet it gave the Jews advantages for obtaining salvation. Their stated ordinances, education in the knowledge of the true God and his service, and many favo...
By TRUTH he means the faithfulness and veracity of God; as by _lie, _ the perfidiousness and inconstancy of man; _ut supra et alibi._ WHY YET AM I ALSO JUDGED AS A SINNER? q.d. If more glory accrues t...
But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?...
Romans 3:7 For G1063 if G1487 truth G225 God G2316 increased G4052 (G5656) through G1722 my G1699 lie...
IF THIS BE SO WHAT ADVANTAGE IS THERE IN BEING A JEW? (3:1-8). In a series of questions Paul now takes up the points just made, the claimed advantage of being a Jew (Romans 2:17) and the claimed advan...
‘But if the truth of God through my lie abounds to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?' But the questioner persists. Surely if the consequence of the Jews being untrue highlights the fa...
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 3:7. BUT. This reading is more difficult, but preferable. If ‘for' were correct, it would introduce an illustrative confirmation; ‘but' presents an objection or contrast. Yet even with this rea...
THROUGH MY LIE (εν τω εμω ψευσματ).] Old word from ψευδομα, to lie, only here in N.T. Paul returns to the imaginary objection in verse Romans 3:5. The MSS. differ sharply here between ε δε (but if)...
SINNER (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
BUT WHAT IF MY UNTRUTH? It is plain that a charge of untruth was often made against Paul (_compare_ Galatians 1:20; Romans 9:1). No unbelieving Jew questioned the fact that Paul would come into judgme...
_But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?_ MAN’S SIN AND GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS 1. Our unrighteousness may possibly commend the righteousness of God. 2. This res...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:5 Some of Paul’s Jewish opponents claimed that he taught a doctrine of “cheap grace,” that is, that God receives more glory when Christians DO EVIL and then are forgiven. Paul...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 3:1. WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW?—Pre-eminence. Passage brings out the idea of surplus (Wordsworth). Romans 3:3.—πίστιν τοῦ Θεοῦ—the faith of God—may perhaps be best exp...
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...
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Lie [ψ ε υ σ μ α τ ι]. Only here in the New Testament. The expression carries us back to ver. 4, and is general for moral falsehood, unfaithfulness to the claims of conscience and of God, especially w...
But, may the objector reply, if the truth of God hath abounded — Has been more abundantly shown. Through my lie — If my lie, that is, practice contrary to truth, conduces to the glory of God, by makin...
We must by no means understand these words as spoken by the apostle himself in his own name, as if he had told lies for upholding of the truth; and that the truth of God had abounded to the glory of G...