Romans 2:19

thou thyself Strongly emphatic. The person supposed is not only sure of the privileges of Jews in general, but of his ownspiritual competency, by virtue simply of his position and light.

Surely the Apostle is recalling, in part, his own ideas as a Jewish Rabbi of "the straitest sect;" and we may be certain that in the mass of Rabbis and their followers of that time all the features of pride and blindness he here draws were at least as strongly marked as in his own past. See Appendix A.

a guide of the blind A very frequent and expressive metaphor. See Matthew 15:14; Matthew 23:16, &c.