Romans 3:28

Therefore Another reading of the Gr. gives For. Evidence of MSS., &c. is strong on both sides: but the internal evidence, in the coherence of the argument, is decidedly for "For." Romans 3:28 is then a resuméof what has gone before; a brief restatement of the "law of faith:" q. d. "for this iswhat our facts go to prove, that a man is justified, &c."

If "therefore" is retained, this verse begins, or rather forms, a new minor paragraph, summing up indeed what has preceded, but with no bearing on what follows. If "for" is adopted, Romans 3:27; Romans 3:29 are in close connexion: the Jew's boasting is "excluded," because the "law of faith" is as much for the Gentile as for the Jew. "We conclude" should rather be we reason, we maintain.