Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 3:1
What then, may some say, is the advantage of the Jew, or of the circumcision — That is, those that are circumcised, above the gentiles?
What then, may some say, is the advantage of the Jew, or of the circumcision — That is, those that are circumcised, above the gentiles?
CHAPTER III. _The apostle points out the peculiar privileges of the Jews_, 1-8. _But shows that they, also, as well as the Gentiles, had sinned_, _and forfeited all right and title to God's especi...
WHAT ADVANTAGE ... - The design of the first part of this chapter is to answer some of the objections which might be offered by a Jew to the statements in the last chapter. The first objection is stat...
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...
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...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
WHAT, &C.. What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the, &c. PROFIT. Greek. _opheleia._ Only here and Jude 1:16....
Romans 3:1-2. The advantage of the Jew: Revelation 1. _What advantage_ Lit. WHAT EXCESS, i. e. of privilege. St Paul here corrects, though only in passing, the possible inference from the previous p...
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...
ΤῸ ΠΕΡΙΣΣῸΝ = excess, good or bad. Matthew 5:37; cf. 1 Corinthians 8:8; 2 Corinthians 3:9. Here = advantage or relative gain....
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΌΣ (G4063) чрезмерный; здесь·. преимущество, нечто превосходящее, по качеству и количеству (SH). ΏΦΈΛΕΙΑ (G5622) выгода, польза. Об использовании риторических вопросов для ясности изложения _см...
DISCOURSE: 1828 CHRISTIANS’ ADVANTAGES ABOVE HEATHENS Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way_. IT is not easy to form a just estimate o...
_ROMANS 3:1_.— The Apostle, in the latter end of the foregoing chapter, has carried his argument to the utmost length. What remains is, to keep the Jew in temper, to fix his convictions, and to draw t...
_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...
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW? OR WHAT PROFIT IS THERE OF CIRCUMCISION? 'If the final judgment will turn solely on the...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
f. τὸ περισσὸν τοῦ Ἰουδαίου is that which the Jew has “over and above” the Gentile. τίς ἡ ὠφέλεια τῆς περιτομῆς; = “What good does his circumcision do him?” πολὺ goes with τὸ περισσόν. κατὰ πάντα τρόπ...
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...
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...
What (1) advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? (1) The first address to the Jews, or the first anticipating of an objection by the Jews: what then, are the Jews prefe...
What advantage then? &c. The apostle, not to offend the Jews, by insisting too long in reprehending them, turns his discourse to the advantages they have hitherto had above other nations. As first, th...
“ _What then is the advantage of the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? Much every way: foremost_, _in that unto them were committed the oracles of God._ ” It was a thing generally granted th...
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...
CONTENTS What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit of circumcision? (2) Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. (3) For what if some did not believe?...
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...
_OUR DEBT TO THE JEWS_ ‘What advantage then hath the Jew?… oracles of God.’ Romans 3:1 I. THE ADVANTAGE HERE NOTICED puts us in mind of our indebtedness to the Jew, more especially in regard to th...
1.Though Paul has clearly proved that bare circumcision brought nothing to the Jews, yet since he could not deny but that there was some difference between the Gentiles and the Jews, which by that sym...
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...
WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW?.... If he is not properly a Jew, who is born of Jewish parents, and brought up in the customs, rites, and religion of the Jewish nation, but anyone of whatsoever nati...
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit _is there_ of circumcision? Ver. 1. _What advantage_] Gr. το περισσον, what odds, singular thing, prerogative?...
_What advantage then hath the Jew?_ The foregoing reasonings being contrary to the prejudices of the Jews, one of that nation is here introduced objecting, If our being the children of Abraham, member...
In the first part of this chapter the apostle meets various objections which might naturally arise in the mind of an unbelieving Jew to the doctrine which he has established in the preceding chapter,...
MAN'S GUILT AND GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. The advantage of the Jew:...
WHAT ADVANTAGE, THEN, HATH THE JEW, OR WHAT PROFIT IS THERE OF CIRCUMCISION?...
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...
WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW? OR WHAT IS THE PROFIT OF CIRCUMCISION? 'Advantage' -lit., surplus (Vincent p. 31); lit., what then is the overplus of the Jew? What does the Jew have over and above...
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...
ROMANS CHAPTER 3 ROMANS 3:1,2 The Jew's prerogative, ROMANS 3:3,4 which is not vacated by the unbelief of some, ROMANS 3:5 nor is God's justice impeached in punishing their sinfulness....
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? [Paul's argument was well calculated to astonish the Jews. If some notable Christian should argue conclusively that the Christi...
Romans 3:1 What G5101 advantage G4053 then G3767 Jew G2453 or G2228 what G5101 profit G5622 circumcision G4061...
‘What advantage then does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?' The question then arises that if the Jew who is unrighteous has no special privileges because of his unrighteousness (Ro...
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...
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 3:1. WHAT THEN IS THE ADVANTAGE, etc. On the connection of thought, see above. THE JEW. Used generically for the Jews. THE PROFIT, or, ‘benefit,' OF CIRCUMCISION. This is a specification, wh...
WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW? (τ ουν το περισσον του Ιουδαιου?). Literally, "What then is the overplus of the Jew?" What does the Jew have over and above the Gentile? It is a pertinent question...
Romans 3:1 Preciousness of the Bible. I. Think of the wonderful providence which has watched over the Bible from the beginning. There is no miracle comparable to that which has preserved to us the Sc...
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...
DO THE JEWS HAVE ANY ADVANTAGE? Paul's conclusions in _chapter 2_ are contrary to what the Jews believed. We can imagine them asking: "If our advantages will be no help at Judgment, and Gentiles can a...
_What advantage then hath the Jew?_ …chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. MORAL ADVANTAGE I. There is much advantage to those favoured with clearer light and higher pr...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:1 Now Paul raises the logical question of whether there is any ADVANTAGE or VALUE in being an ethnic Jew and being physically circumcised. He probably means “value for salvatio...
_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...
1 Corinthians 15:32; Ecclesiastes 6:11; Ecclesiastes 6:8; Genesis 25:32;...
Advantage [π ε ρ ι σ σ ο ν]. Lit., surplus. Hence prerogative or pre - eminence. Profit [ω φ ε λ ε ι α]. Compare profiteth, Romans 2:25....
The sense is this: But you of the Jews will object and say, "If outward circumcision avails nothing, but the inward circumcision is all in all; and if the uncircumcised person, keeping the law, is to...