Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 4:14
If they only who are of the law — Who have kept the whole law. Are heirs, faith is made void — No blessing being to be obtained by it; and so the promise is of no effect.
If they only who are of the law — Who have kept the whole law. Are heirs, faith is made void — No blessing being to be obtained by it; and so the promise is of no effect.
Verse Romans 4:14. _FOR, IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS_] If the Jews only be heirs of the promise made to Abraham, and that on the ground of prior obedience to the law, _then faith is made voi...
FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW - Who seek for justification and acceptance by the Law. FAITH IS MADE VOID - Faith would have no place in the scheme; and consequently the strong commendations bestow...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The Witness of Abraham to Justification. (Romans 4:1 .)_ 2. As Confirmed also by David. (Romans 4:6 .) 3. Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant. (Romans 4:9 .) 4. Faith in Him Who Ra...
ROMANS 4:11 _B -_ ROMANS 4:17_ A._ ABRAHAM'S RELATION TO MANKIND. With Abraham's faith a great prospect opened for humanity. Romans 4:11_ b_,...
THE FAITH WHICH TAKES GOD AT HIS WORD (Romans 4:1-8)...
It was not through law that there came to Abraham or to his seed the promise that he would inherit the earth, but it came through that right relationship with God which has its origin in faith. If the...
THE. Omit. IS MADE VOID. Literally has been emptied. Greek. _kenoo._ Elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 1:17. 1Co 9:15. 2 Corinthians 9:3.Philippians 1:2;...
_of the law_ Lit. OUT OF THE LAW. On the Gr. construction see on Romans 3:26 (_ad finem_). "_Law_" here is without article, and _possibly_its reference is general; q. d. "If those who in any sense cla...
ΟἹ ἘΚ ΝΌΜΟΥ, those who base a claim on law, and those only. ΚΕΚΈΝΩΤΑΙ Ἡ Π. Κ. Κ. Ἡ Ἐ. The two principles are mutually exclusive. Ἡ Π. = the act of faith seen in Abraham. ΚΕΚΈΝΩΤΑΙ = is made, by such...
The relation of law to promise is very briefly treated, just to meet the possible objection that the law is a condition of inheriting the promise, even though it was not an original condition of the p...
ΚΕΚΈΝΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΕΝΌΩ (G2758) опустошать. _Perf._ подчеркивает состояние или условие, вызванное предыдущим условием, ΚΑΤΉΡΓΗΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΤΑΡΓΈΩ (G2673) аннулировать, от...
FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS— The Apostle here speaks of the performance of the law, with reference to a _moral_ impossibility: for it seems evident from what follows, that the law is to...
_TEXT_ Romans 4:13-22. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 4:14 For if they that are o...
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS - If the blessing is to be earned by obedience to the...
_JUSTIFICATION-INDIVIDUAL_ 13 As further developed in Galatians, the law was not given till hundreds of years after Abraham was counted righteous. The promises he received in connection with it were...
VOID] because an opposite condition would have been brought in: cp. Galatians 3:18....
ACCEPTANCE BY FAITH FORESHADOWED IN THE OLD DISPENSATION In Romans 3:21.; St. Paul set forth the great truth of acceptance by faith. A Jew might object that it was new, and therefore not true. In Roma...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 ABRAHAM’S *FAITH 4:1-8 V1 We shall talk about our *ancestor Abraham. He discovered how to be *righteous. V2 But he d...
IS MADE VOID. — Literally, _emptied_ of its meaning, becomes an empty name, and the promise is rendered nugatory. There is nothing left for either to do, if the votaries of law, simply as such, are to...
(14-17) This Messianic kingdom cannot have anything to do with law; for if it had, faith and the promise would cease to have any office. Faith and law cannot co-exist. They are the opposites of each o...
IV. (1-25) The subject of the chapter is an application of the foregoing to the special (and crucial) case of Abraham, with particular reference to two ideas that are continually recurring throughout...
CHAPTER 11 ABRAHAM (2) Romans 4:13 AGAIN we approach the name of Abraham, Friend of God, Father of the Faithful. We have seen him justified by faith, personally accepted because turning altogether t...
The argument of Romans 4:9-12 is reiterated and confirmed here in other terms. Abraham is the father of all believers: for it is not through law that the promise is given to him or his seed, that he s...
κεκένωται _cf._ 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1Co 9:15, 2 Corinthians 9:3. κατήργηται : a favourite word of Paul, who uses it twenty-five times....
THIS BLESSEDNESS IS FOR ALL Romans 4:9 In Abraham's case it is clear that he was justified when he was still a Gentile. The initial badge of Judaism was stamped upon him long after he had believed Go...
The apostle now dealt with another difficulty that might arise in the mind of the Jew, showing that the method of grace, namely, imputing righteousness in response to faith, is in harmony with the who...
(12) For if they which are of the (k) law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: (12) A double confirmation of that reason: the one is that the promise cannot be apprehe...
_For if they, who are of the law, be heirs: faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect. That is, if the Jews, who are under the law, are the only heirs of the blessings promised, it will fol...
If, in order to be _heir of the world_, it is absolutely necessary to come _under the jurisdiction of the law_, and consequently to be its faithful observer otherwise what purpose would it serve? it i...
TENTH PASSAGE (4:1-25). FAITH THE PRINCIPLE OF ABRAHAM'S JUSTIFICATION. Abraham being for the Jews the embodiment of salvation, his case was of capital moment in the solution of the question here tre...
“ _For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his seed, by the law, but by the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is...
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. (14) For if they which are of the law be heirs, f...
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...
14._For if they who are of the law, etc. _He takes his argument from what is impossible or absurd, that the favor which Abraham obtained from God, was not promised to him through any legal agreement,...
In dealing with the Jew, and even in dealing with the question of righteousness, there was, besides the law, another consideration of great weight both with the Jews themselves and in the dealings of...
FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS,.... That is, if the Jews who are under the law, and are seeking for righteousness and life by the works of it, should, on the account of their obedience to i...
For if they which are of the law _be_ heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Ver. 14. _Faith is made void_] _See Trapp on "_ Gal 3:12 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Gal 5:2 _"_ That Ep...
THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW; those who seek justification by their own works. BE HEIRS; if they are by their own merits entitled to the blessings which God promised to Abraham. FAITH IS MADE VOID; is...
FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS, FAITH IS MADE VOID, AND THE PROMISE MADE OF NONE EFFECT,...
The promise is not by the Law:...
ABRAHAM AND DAVID JUSTIFIED BY FAITH Now there is deepest patience and grace shown on the part of God through Paul, His instrument in writing this epistle: for it is blessed to see that He gives no m...
ROMANS 4:1-25 1. How was Abraham justified? 2. Could he have been justified by works? a. Why or why not? b. Faith excludes boasting 3:27 c. If saved by works, Abraham could glory 3. How did it h...
__ Romans 4:14 For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect: 'they that are of the law' -'for if it is those who rely on Law who are the heir...
13-22 The promise was made to Abraham long before the law. It points at Christ, and it refers to the promise, Genesis 12:3. In Thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. The law worketh wrath,...
i.e. If they that trust to the fulfilling of the law, be heirs of the promise of God, and so the inheritance come by works; then faith is to no purpose, neither is there any use of it; and so also the...
For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect :...
Romans 4:11 And G2532 received G2983 (G5627) sign G4592 circumcision G4061 seal G4973 righteousness G1343 faith G4102
WHAT PAUL HAS JUST DESCRIBED IS NOW SEEN TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH IDEAS RELATED TO ABRAHAM AND DAVID (4:1-25). No one was of more importance to the Jews than Abraham. It was to him that God had given...
3). ABRAHAM ILLUSTRATES THE FACT THAT GOD'S GREATEST GIFTS DO NOT COME TO US BECAUSE WE ‘OBEY THE LAW', BUT BECAUSE WE ‘BELIEVE IN THE LORD' (4:13-25). The importance of faith in the life of Abraham i...
‘For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect. For the law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.' The promise...
2. PROOF FROM THE CASE OF ABRAHAM, THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BY FAITH. The principle of faith, as the universal one, does not make void the law. In the truest sense it is by this principle that ‘we establ...
Romans 4:14. FOR IF, etc. The proof of Romans 4:13 is now given (Romans 4:14-17), from the nature of the law, and the consequent necessity of faith as the ground of inheritance. THEY THAT ARE OF THE...
BE HEIRS (κληρονομο). No predicate in the Greek (εισιν). See on Galatians 4:1. If legalists are heirs of the Messianic promise to Abraham (condition of first class, assumed as true for argument's s...
Romans 3:31 ; ROMANS 4 A Crucial Case. I. It was by his faith Abraham was justified, not by his works of obedience. Paul's proof of this is very simple. He finds a remarkable proof-text ready to his...
Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?_ What blessings did really come to Abraham, the father of the faithful? What is the nature of that...
Romans 4:1. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith...
Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what sait...
CONTENTS: Abraham justified by faith, not works. Justifying faith defined. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Abraham, David, Sarah. CONCLUSION: No man can pretend to merit eternal life, nor show any worth in...
Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as pertaining_ _to the flesh, hath found?_ How was he a sinner, an idolater, justified? _Was it by the flesh,_ as indicated by the word fa...
_What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?_ LESSONS FROM THE CASE OF ABRAHAM I. However much the most perfect of the species may have to glory of in the...
_For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not … through the law._ THE PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM I. The promise, “that he should be heir of the world,” was made not entirely to Abr...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:13 The WORLD to come is another term for the final salvation that will be given to Abraham and all believers (see Hebrews 11:10;...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:1 Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, is presented as a test case for the view that justification is by faith alone. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 4:1.—Alford, following Meyer, says κατὰ σάρκα is in contrast to κατὰ πνεῦμα, and refers to that part of our being from which spring works in contrast with that which is the ex...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 4:1 (5) _Abraham himself shown to have been justified by faith, and not by works, believers being his true heirs._ The main points of the argument may be summarized thus: When Abra...
Now what shall we say concerning Abraham the father, as pertaining to the flesh, what did he find? For if Abraham were justified by his works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God (Romans 4:1-...
Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:18; Galatians 5:4; Hebrews 7:19; Heb
ABRAHAM AN EXEMPLAR OF FAITH Romans 4:1, _Romans 4:13_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our verses there are several things relative to the faith of Abraham that are worthy of note: 1. WHAT DID ABRAHAM FIND A...
That is, If they which seem to be justified by the works of the law be heirs of this promised inheritance; then FAITH, that is, the way of justification by faith, prescribed by God, is to no purpose,...