Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
(Again, your apostle says:) "Rejoicing in hope; "[683]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "Patient in tribulation."[685]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "Bless, and curse not,"[687]
Verse Romans 12:12. _REJOICING IN HOPE_] Of that glory of God that to each faithful follower of Christ shall shortly be revealed. _PATIENT IN TRIBULATION_] Remembering that what you suffer as Christi...
REJOICING IN HOPE - That is, in the hope of eternal life and glory which the gospel produces; see the notes at Romans 5:2. PATIENT IN TRIBULATION - In affliction patiently enduring all that maybe appo...
III. EXHORTATIONS AND THE CONCLUSION. Chapter s 12-16. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Body as a Willing Sacrifice. (Romans 12:1 .)_ 2. Service. (Romans 12:3 .) 3. The Daily Walk in Holiness. (Romans 12:9 .)...
IN THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER, _modesty_ is the first desideratum. Romans 12:3. I tell everyone that is among you not _to_ be high-minded above a right mind, but to be of a mind to be sober-minded (Sp.). Th...
THE TRUE WORSHIP AND THE ESSENTIAL CHANGE (Romans 12:1-2)...
Your love must be completely sincere. Hate that which is evil and cling to that which is good. Be affectionate to one another in brotherly love. Give to each other priority in honour. Do not be sluggi...
HOPE. the hope. Compare 2 Timothy 2:13; 2 Timothy 2:13. PATIENT. Greek. _hupomeno._ Compare Matthew 10:22; 1 Cori
_Rejoicing in hope_ Better, IN RESPECT OF THE HOPE, REJOICING. Cp. ch. Romans 5:2; where see note. On this holy gladness cp. also 1 Peter 1:3-9. _patient_, &c. Better, IN RESPECT OF THE TRIBULATION, E...
ΤΗ͂Ι ἘΛΠΊΔΙ ΧΑΊΡΟΝΤΕΣ. Cf. Romans 15:13; dat. = because of your hope; their hope is motive of joy; and hope naturally springs from the thought of the Spirit and the Lord; cf. Revelation 22:17. ΤΗ͂Ι ΘΛ...
The urgency of the times calls for the new character in man....
10–21. Note the remarkable coordination of participles, adjectives, infinitives (15), and imperatives. All should be translated by the imperative; cf. Moulton, pp. 180 f., 222; cf. 1 Peter 2:18; 1 Pet...
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
ΤΉ ΈΛΠΊΔΙ (G1680) в надежде. _Dat._ является loc., в точке надежды (EGT). ΧΑΊΡΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΧΑ-ΊΡΩ (G5463) радоваться, ликовать, ΘΛΪ́ΨΙΣ (G2347) давление, гнет, ΎΠΟΜΈΝΟΝΤΕΣ _praes....
DISCOURSE: 1908 CHRISTIAN DUTIES TO GOD AND MAN EXPLAINED Romans 12:9. _Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour pre...
_TEXT_ Romans 12:3-16. For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly,...
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; REJOICING ... In this second triplet; it is more lively to retain the order and the verbs of the original: 'In hope, rejoici...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
PARAPHRASE. '(1) God's redeeming love should be answered by the true sacrifice and spiritual ritual service of a life of purity and self-denial and work for God. (2) Do not follow the fashions and cus...
INSTANT] RV 'stedfastly.'...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 12 TRUE *WORSHIP 12:1-2 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, God has shown you his kindness. Therefore I am appealing to you. Of...
(9-21) Now follow to the end of the chapter a number of general exhortations, not addressed to particular persons or classes, but to the Church at large....
IN HOPE. — The Christian’s hope, of which we have had more in Romans 8:20. PATIENT IN TRIBULATION. — This virtue was, of course, specially needed in the troublous times through which the Church was pa...
CHAPTER 26 CHRISTIAN DUTY: DETAILS OF PERSONAL CONDUCT Romans 12:8 ST. PAUL has set before us the life of surrender, of the "giving over" of faculty to God, in one great preliminary aspect. The fair...
As far as any single idea pervades the rest of the chapter it is that of the first words in Romans 12:9 : ἡ ἀγάπη ἀνυπόκριτος. The passage as a whole has a strong affinity to 1 Corinthians 13, and alo...
τῇ ἐλπίδι χαίροντες : the hope in which they are to rejoice is that of Christians: _cf._ Romans 5:2. The meaning is practically the same as in that passage, but the mental representation is not. τῇ ἐλ...
LIVING AS A CHRISTIAN Romans 12:9 In this section the Apostle shows how the great principle of consecration must affect the details of conduct. It is most necessary to insist on these practical issue...
The word "therefore" links all that is now to be said with everything that has gone before. Because of the grace of God, the believer is called to certain attitudes and actions. The very first of thes...
(7) Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; (7) He reckons up different virtues together with their effects, that is, hope, patience in tribulation, evenness of mind,...
The χαρίσματα, _gifts_, are different, as we have just seen. But there is a gift which is at the root of all the rest, and which ought to be common to all believers, that of all those who have no othe...
“ _Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, persevering in prayer._ ” The fervor of devotion, referred to in Romans 12:11, has no more powerful auxiliary than _joy;_ for joy disposes us to kindness...
TWENTY-FIFTH PASSAGE (12:3-21). THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER AS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH. The notion of consecration is still the prevailing one in this passage. This consecration is realized in life: 1st,...
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (7) Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he t...
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...
12._Rejoicing in hope, etc. _Three things are here connected together, and seem in a manner to belong to the clause “serving the time;” for the person who accommodates himself best to the time, and av...
The apostle resumes the thread of his instructions, by taking up as he does in all his epistles the moral consequences of his doctrine. He places the believer at the outset on the ground of God's merc...
REJOICING IN HOPE,.... Of the glory of God, than the hope of which nothing can make a believer more cheerful in this world; the saints' joy is therefore called the "rejoicing of the hope", Hebrews 3:6...
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Ver. 12. _Rejoicing in hope_] Hope makes absent joys present, wants, plenitudes, and beguiles calamity as good company doth th...
_Rejoicing in hope_ Of perfect holiness and everlasting happiness; or _of the glory of God;_ (Romans 5:2;) and _of eternal life, Titus 1:2_; _patient in tribulation_ To which you may be exposed for th...
IN HOPE; in hope of future glory. INSTANT IN PRAYER; habitual, fervent, persevering in the duty....
REJOICING IN HOPE; PATIENT IN TRIBULATION; CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER;...
The Christian's conduct in his personal relations:...
PRACTICAL RESPONSE IN BELIEVERS Now Paul has completed his treatment of the subject of God's counsel in reference to salvation - counsel accomplished by a hand of mercy. What then is to be the proper...
Love (agape) should be Without dissimulation - hypocrisy, no pretense, not false love Abhor evil - (pornos) bad, malicious, wicked, badness in quality or character Cleave to that which is good - be...
__ Romans 12:12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer; 'Rejoicing in hope' -'Hope in future blessedness should be. source of joy even in the midst of severe perse...
9-16 The professed love of Christians to each other should be sincere, free from deceit, and unmeaning and deceitful compliments. Depending on Divine grace, they must detest and dread all evil, and l...
REJOICING IN HOPE; i.e. in hope of deliverance here in due time, and of eternal salvation hereafter: SEE POOLE ON "ROMANS 5:2". CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER; be instant and constant in the duty. A met...
rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer [In this triplet the apostle directs the manner in which the Christian life is to inwardly manifest its love toward God. The...
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‘Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer,' Having spoken of the upward look (fervent in the Spirit, serving the LORD), Paul now considers the forward look by which...
LOVE EXPRESSING ITSELF IN THE FAMILY OF BELIEVERS (12:10-13). While the injunctions that follow in Romans 12:10 are not necessarily to be limited to benefiting the family, it is clear that love for ou...
A CALL TO FULFIL THE LAW OF CHRIST AND OF THE SCRIPTURES. THE WORKING OUT OF LOVE (12:9-21). Having dealt with what was necessary for the edifying and upbuilding of the body of Christ, Paul now turns...
A CALL TO MAKE REAL IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE RECEIVED (12:1-15:33). This section moves from the indicative to the imperative. Having outlined the ways of God i...
1). CHRISTIAN LIVING (12:1-13:14). In this passage Paul calls on God's people so to present their bodies as a living offering to God, through their having died with Christ and risen with Him (Romans 6...
Romans 12:12. IN HOPE, REJOICING. The hope, _i.e._, the thing hoped for, is the ground rather than the object of the joy. IN TRIBULATION, PATIENT, _i.e.,_ steadfast as usually. This clause follows,...
2. _Exhortation for all Christians_, _in their Personal Relations_, _from Love of the Brethren to returning Good for Evil._ All the precepts of this section are based upon Christian love (Romans 12:9)...
PATIENT IN TRIBULATION (τη θλιψε υπομενοντες). So soon this virtue became a mark of the Christians....
Romans 12:12 In the widest sense the injunction of the text lays upon us these things: (1) The habitual maintenance of a prayerful spirit; (2) the duty of embracing opportunities for prayer; (3) the...
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren,_ Paul is a calm reasoner. He is a bold starer of truth, but here he comes to pleading with us. I think that I see him lift the pen from the paper and...
CONTENTS: Christian life and service. Consecration to Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Since we have been justified through grace, by faith in Christ, it is our first duty to surren...
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God._ Under the form of entreaty he now tenderly exhorts them, in return for all the glory of redeeming love, to present their bodies...
LET YOUR HOPE KEEP YOU JOYFUL. The _evidence_ of the Holy Spirit living in the Christian is: faith, hope, and love. From heaven's view, they are the supreme miracles of divine grace. BE PATIENT IN YOU...
_Rejoicing in hope._ I. What is it to rejoice? 1. Negatively-- (1) Not to have the senses pleased. (2) Nor does it consist in the imagination. 2. Positively; it consists in-- (1) The removal of...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:1 God’s Righteousness in Everyday Life. The gift of God’s saving righteousness leads to a new life. Paul explains some practical results of God’s saving mercy....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 12:11.—In your haste be not idle, in your business be not lazy. As to your zeal, being not indolent; fervent in spirit, taking advantage of opportunity. The Syriac, Arabic, and...
EXPOSITION VER. 1–CH. 14:23 III. HORTATORY. It is St. Paul's way to supplement his doctrinal treatises with detailed practical directions as to the conduct that should of necessity ensue on belief in...
I beseech you therefore, brethren (Romans 12:1), Because God has grafted you in, because you are partaking of the fullness of that good tree. I beseech thee, because of these things, that ye present...
1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 5:14; 1 John 5:15; 1 Peter 1:
Continuing instant [π ρ ο σ κ α ρ τ ε ρ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Compare Acts 1:4; Acts 6:4. Rev., steadfastly for instant, which has lost its original sense of urgent (Latin, instare to press upon). Thus Latime...
GOD'S CALL TO CONSECRATION Romans 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Permit me to enlarge upon the expression, "THEREFORE." Our chapter opens thus: "I beseech you THEREFORE, brethren, by the mercies of God....
Rejoicing in hope — Of perfect holiness and everlasting happiness. Hitherto of faith and love; now of hope also, see the fifth and eighth chapters; afterwards of duties toward others; saints, Romans 1...
The apostle next directs the converted Romans how they should manage themselves under afflictions; namely, to endure them patiently, to rejoice in hope of present deliverance, or future happiness; and...