Romans 4:1-5
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD DEMONSTRATED FROM HISTORY. The justification of Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD DEMONSTRATED FROM HISTORY. The justification of Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL WE SAY, THEN, THAT ABRAHAM, OUR FATHER, AS PERTAINING TO THE FLESH, HATH FOUND?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF ABRAHAM WERE JUSTIFIED BY WORKS, HE HATH WHEREOF TO GLORY, BUT NOT BEFORE GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS COUNTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW TO HIM THAT WORKETH IS THE REWARD NOT RECKONED OF GRACE, BUT OF DEBT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT TO HIM THAT WORKETH NOT, BUT BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT JUSTIFIETH THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH IS COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Paul had taught that we are justified by faith. to demonstrate and confirm this doctrine, as well as to anticipate a probable objection on the part of the Jews, he now refers to the... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN AS DAVID ALSO DESCRIBETH THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MAN UNTO WHOM GOD IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORKS,... [ Continue Reading ]
A proof from the Psalms:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, BLESSED ARE THEY WHOSE INIQUITIES ARE FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD WILL NOT IMPUTE SIN. The apostle here introduces a new witness to the truth of the comforting doctrine which he is teaching. Genesis 15:6 agrees exactly with Psalms 32:1. Just as also David expresses, pronounces, blessing, speaks the felicitations of the man. The... [ Continue Reading ]
COMETH THIS BLESSEDNESS, THEN, UPON THE CIRCUMCISION ONLY, OR UPON THE UNCIRCUMCISION ALSO? FOR WE SAY THAT FAITH WAS RECKONED TO ABRAHAM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Justification does not presuppose the fulfillment of the Law:... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW WAS IT THEN RECKONED, WHEN HE WAS IN CIRCUMCISION OR IN UNCIRCUMCISION? NOT IN CIRCUMCISION, BUT IN UNCIRCUMCISION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE RECEIVED THE SIGN OF CIRCUMCISION, A SEAL OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH WHICH HE HAD YET BEING UNCIRCUMCISED, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FATHER OF ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE, THOUGH THEY BE NOT CIRCUMCISED, THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS MIGHT BE IMPUTED UNTO THEM ALSO;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FATHER OF CIRCUMCISION TO THEM WHO ARE NOT OF THE CIRCUMCISION ONLY, BUT WHO ALSO WALK IN THE STEPS OF THAT FAITH OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM WHICH HE HAD BEING YET UNCIRCUMCISED. St. Paul had proved that Abraham had not been justified on account of his keeping the Law, by reason of his merits in... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE PROMISE THAT HE SHOULD BE THE HEIR OF THE WORLD WAS NOT TO ABRAHAM OR TO HIS SEED THROUGH THE LAW, BUT THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The promise is not by the Law:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS, FAITH IS MADE VOID, AND THE PROMISE MADE OF NONE EFFECT,... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; FOR WHERE NO LAW IS, THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE IT IS OF FAITH THAT IT MIGHT BE BY GRACE, TO THE END THE PROMISE MIGHT BE SURE TO ALL THE SEED; NOT TO THAT ONLY WHICH IS OF THE LAW, BUT TO THAT ALSO WHICH IS OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM, WHO IS THE FATHER OF US ALL. The apostle had explained that Abraham was intended to be the spiritual fath... [ Continue Reading ]
(AS IT IS WRITTEN, I HAVE MADE THEE A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS,) BEFORE HIM WHOM HE BELIEVED, EVEN GOD, WHO QUICKENETH THE DEAD, AND CALLETH THOSE THINGS WHICH BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Scriptural proof:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO AGAINST HOPE BELIEVED IN HOPE, THAT HE MIGHT BECOME THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS, ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN, SO SHALL THY SEED BE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEING NOT WEAK IN FAITH, HE CONSIDERED NOT HIS OWN BODY NOW DEAD, WHEN HE WAS ABOUT AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD, NEITHER YET THE DEADNESS OF SARAH'S WOMB;... [ Continue Reading ]
HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF, BUT WAS STRONG IN FAITH, GIVING GLORY TO GOD,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT WHAT HE HAD PROMISED HE WAS ABLE ALSO TO PERFORM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEREFORE IT WAS IMPUTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. That Abraham is the father of all believers is in agreement with Scripture, Genesis 17:5. Not only according to the inspired exposition of Paul, but also according to the evident understanding of the original text, the passage referred to must b... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR HIS SAKE ALONE, THAT IT WAS IMPUTED TO HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of the argument:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT FOR US ALSO, TO WHOM IT SHALL BE IMPUTED, IF WE BELIEVE ON HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS, OUR LORD, FROM THE DEAD;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO WAS DELIVERED FOR OUR OFFENSES, AND WAS RAISED AGAIN FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION. What is written of Abraham in this chapter and in other parts of the Bible, especially in the book of Genesis, is not written for the sake of Abraham alone. The story of the faith and consequent justification of Abraham... [ Continue Reading ]