Romans 3:30

seeing it is one God This ver. may be lit. rendered thus: If indeed God is one, who will (and He will) justify the circumcision in consequence of faith, and the uncircumcision by means of its faith. "If indeed" is an argumentative formula, assuming its hypothesis to be true. Q. d., "God is one; hence it is but likely that His action on this great principle will be one also." "Will justify:" this future, like many others in this argument, refers to what is and will be the Divine methodthrough the Gospel age. "The circumcision in consequence of faith, and the uncircumcision by means of, &c." It is hardly possible that a distinction is to be insisted on here, as the point of the passage is similarity, equality, oneness, in regard of justification. The fulness of thought and language delights, as it were, to dwell on justifying faith in one case as God's reasonwhy pardon is applied to the believer, in the other as the believer's wayof accepting the pardon. The whole passage proves that Jewish and Gentile faith is one and the same in kind and effect.