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Verse 30. _BACKBITERS_] καταλαλους, from κατα,
_against_, and λαλεω, _I speak_; those who speak against others;
false accusers, _slanderers_.
_HATERS OF GOD_] θεοστυγεις, _atheists, contemners of
sac...
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BACKBITERS - Those Who calumniate, slander, or speak ill of those who
are absent. Whisperers declare secretly, and with great reserve, the
supposed faults of others. Backbiters proclaim them publicly...
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2. THE NEED OF SALVATION DEMONSTRATED.
The Whole World Guilty and Lost.
Chapter 1:18-3:20.
CHAPTER 1:18-32.
_ 1. Wrath Revealed from Heaven. 18._
2. Gentile Knowledge of God. 19-20.
3. Turning f...
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Mankind is in a ruinous plight: GOD'S ANGER, which is His
righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race.
ROMANS 1:18_ A_. The Divine wrath is being revealed from heaven in
action against...
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A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
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Just as they have given themselves over to a kind of knowledge that
rejects the idea of God, so God has given them over to the kind of
mind that all reject. The result is that they do things which it...
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BACKBITERS. evil speakers (not necessarily behind the back). Greek.
_katalalos._ Only here. Compare 2 Corinthians 12:20; 1 Peter 2:1.
HATERS OF GOD. hateful to God. Greek. _theostuges._ Only here.
DE...
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Romans 1:18-32. (18) This power and condition revealed in the Gospel
meets the need of man; for in the actual state of man we can see that
his life lies under GOD’s wrath. Man has by unrighteous actio...
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ΚΑΤΆΛΑΛΟΣ (G2637) хула на ближнего,
злоречие. Предложное сочетание
указывает на действие,
неблагоприятное для его объекта (МН,
316).
ΘΕΟΣΤΥΓΉΣ (G2319) "ненавистный Богу"
пассивное значение, или "нена...
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DISCOURSE: 1823
MEN HATERS OF GOD
Romans 1:30. _Haters of God_.
WHAT! are there any persons of this character upon earth? It cannot
be: it were a libel upon human nature to suppose it. Go round to al...
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HATERS OF GOD— Discontented with his government, and disaffected to
his rule, as a righteous and holy Being who could not but be highly
displeased with their abominations. The original word
'Υβριστας,...
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_TEXT_
Romans 1:26-32. For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions:
for their women changed the natural use into that which is against
nature: Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the...
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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of
evil things, disobedient to parents,
BACKBITERS, [ katalalous (G2637)] - rather, 'slanderers'. The former
word refers to secret...
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_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_
25 There may be an allusion here to the prevalent custom of worshiping
the Roman emperor. It has often occurred that, when men have attained
to great eminence, they have dema...
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1:30 God, (f-4) I doubt that it has the sense of 'God-haters.' It
acquired the sense of 'abominably wicked.' as 'cursed children' does
not mean that a curse is pronounced, but that they are fit only t...
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THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE
HEATHEN
In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the
greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
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DESPITEFUL] RV 'insolent.' PROUD] RV 'haughty.'...
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PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS
ROMANS
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_
ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS
ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME
Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
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HATERS OF GOD. — Rather, perhaps, _hated by God._ There seem to be
no examples of the active sense. The Apostle apparently throws in one
emphatic word summing up the catalogue as far as it has gone; h...
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(24-32) Hence they fell into a still lower depth; for, in anger at
their perversion of the truth, God refrained from checking their
downward course. He left them to follow their own evil bent. Their
i...
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WHISPERERS, BACKBITERS. — In the Greek the idea of secresy is
contained chiefly in the first of these words. “Secret backbiters
and slanderers of every kind.”...
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CHAPTER 5
MAN GIVEN UP TO HIS OWN WAY: THE HEATHEN
Romans 1:24
WHEREFORE God gave them up, in the desires of their hearts, to
uncleanness, so as to dishonour their bodies among themselves.
There is...
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FROM GROSS SINS OF THE FLESH
Romans 1:24
Few men knew as much as did Paul of the unutterableness of human need.
In terrible words he enumerates its various aspects. Truth would enter
human hearts fro...
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Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called
apostle writing to the called saints.
As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a
gift had been bestowed on...
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_Hateful [5] to God. The Greek may also signify, haters of God.
(Witham) --- Greek: theostugeis means either haters of God, or hated
by God. (Menochius) --- Disobedient to parents. The Greek literally...
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“ _Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud,
boasters._ ”
The dispositions expressed in the six terms of this group are those of
which pride is the centre. There is no reason for reduc...
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FOURTH PASSAGE (1:18-32). THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE GENTILES.
According to Paul's usual style, the first verse contains summarily
all the ideas developed in the following piece. The study of the verse...
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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
(19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;...
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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...
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30.The word θεοστυγεῖς, means, no doubt, _haters of God_;
for there is no reason to take it in a passive sense, (hated of God,)
since Paul here proves men to be guilty by manifest vices. Those,
then,...
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There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on
more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no
claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
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BACKBITERS,.... Who more publicly defamed the characters of their
neighbours, and hurt their good name, credit and reputation, though
behind their backs:
HATERS OF GOD; some read it, "hated of God";...
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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of
evil things, disobedient to parents,
Ver. 30. _Haters of God_] And so God-murderers,1 John 3:15. _See Trapp
on "_ 1Jn 3:15 _"_...
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_And as they did not like_ ουκ εδοκιμασαν, _they did not
approve, to retain God in their knowledge_ Or rather, as εχειν
εν επιγνωσει more properly signifies, _to retain him with
acknowledgment._ For i...
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BACKBITERS, HATERS OF GOD, DESPITEFUL, PROUD, BOASTERS, INVENTORS OF
EVIL THINGS, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,...
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The depths of immorality and godlessness:...
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The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down
distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of
which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel...
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ROMANS 1:26-32
1. What is the basic problem of man as Paul sees it in chapter one?
a. Is it idolatry?
b. Failure to worship God?
c. Something more basic?
2. Which sin really came first?
a. Fooli...
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ROMANS 1:29 : Remember, these are sins just as bad as homosexuality!
'UNLOVING' (ROMANS 1:31) -'without natural affection'; which means
lovelessness where healthy people should have it; love of famil...
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26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's
words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he...
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HATERS OF GOD; the original word hath a passive termination, and
therefore some read it, hated of God. But words passive are sometimes
actively taken: see 2 PETER 1:3. And the apostle here intendeth a...
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backbiters [outspoken slanderers], _hateful to God_ [many contend that
this should read "haters of God," since Paul is enumerating the vices
of men, and not God's attitude toward them. Others, followi...
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Cyprian Epistle LXVII
And besides, Paul the apostle writes, and says the same thing:
"Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters of
themselves, inventors of evil things, who, a...
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Romans 1:30 backbiters G2637 God G2319 violent G5197 proud G5244
boasters G213 inventors G2182 things G2556 disobedient G545
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSING TO HAVE GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE (1:28-32).
Paul now moves on from the results of ungodliness to the results of
unrighteousness (compare Romans 1:18). Men refused to have Go...
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‘Being filled with all unrighteousness: wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity,
whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful,
in...
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Romans 1:30. BACKBITERS; open slanderers, or calumniators.
HATEFUL TO GOD; or, as in the E. V., ‘haters of God.' The former
sense is the classical one; the latter is supposed to be more in
accordance...
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DOCTRINAL PART.
1. UNIVERSAL NEED.
Having asserted that the gospel is God's power unto salvation to every
one that believeth, whether Jew or Greek, the Apostle proceeds to show
that all men are sinne...
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1. THE SINFULNESS OF THE GENTILES.
This fearful yet truthful description of the moral decay of the
Gentile world is not introduced abruptly. In Romans 1:17 the Apostle
had declared that righteousness...
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Paul changes the construction again to twelve substantives and
adjectives that give vivid touches to this composite photograph of the
God abandoned soul.WHISPERERS
(ψιθυριστας). Old word from ψιθυρι...
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Romans 1:18
The Natural History of Paganism.
I. St. Paul's first proposition is, that from the first the heathen
knew enough of God from His works to render them without excuse for
not worshipping H...
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CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a
revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of
a lost world.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul.
CONCLUSION: God has...
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Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,_ in the sense he himself
illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought
with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your s...
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THEY ARE HATEFUL TO GOD. Sin is a hateful thing to God. See note on
Matthew 27:46....
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_For this cause God gave them up to vile affections._
HUMAN DEPRAVITY
I. The cause of all this gross ignorance and corruption is assigned in
Romans 1:28. “They did not like to retain God in their kn...
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_Being filled with all unrighteousness._
THE PREVALENCE OF EVIL
All is full of crime and vice; there is more committed than can be
healed by punishment. A monstrous prize contest of wickedness is go...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 1:22.—Here begins a dark picture of heathenism, but fully
verified from the writings of what has been called the most brilliant
age of the most intellectual nations of the worl...
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EXPOSITION
ROMANS 1:1
I. INTRODUCTORY.
ROMANS 1:1
A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel
of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's
mind is...
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This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens
his epistle to the Romans declaring:
Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated
unto the gospel of God...
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1 Kings 20:11; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 25:19; 2 Corinthians
10:15;...
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Whisperers — Such as secretly defame others. Backbiters — Such as
speak against others behind their back. Haters of God — That is,
rebels against him, deniers of his providence, or accusers of his
jus...