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Romans 2:3
These very things yourself. The Jew did think he was exempt from God's wrath. Read what Jesus said in Matthew 7:3-5. Many think their own sin will go unpunished!
These very things yourself. The Jew did think he was exempt from God's wrath. Read what Jesus said in Matthew 7:3-5. Many think their own sin will go unpunished!
AND THINKEST THOU ... - This is an appeal to their common sense, to their deep and instinctive conviction of what was right. If they condemned those who practiced these things; if, imperfect and obscu...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Gentile Moralist and Reformer and His Condemnation. (Romans 2:1 .)_ 2. The Two Classes. (Romans 2:7 .) 3. The State of the Jew. (Romans 2:17 .)...
Some one interjects: I do not approve, I condemn the sins you describe. Then you condemn yourself, Paul retorts, for you _commit_ them! THE MORALIST UNDER CONDEMNATION, with the flagitious sinner. Thr...
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVILEGE (Romans 2:1-11)...
So, then, O man, everyone of you who judges others, you yourself have no defence. While you judge others, you condemn yourself, for you who set yourself up as a judge do exactly the same things. We kn...
THINKEST. reckonest. Greek. _logizomai._ First of nineteen occurances in Romans of this important word; here, Romans 2:26; Romans 3:28; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:4;
_that thou shalt escape_ "_Thou_" is, of course, emphatic. We must remember how often the Jews of that age clung to national privilege as if it were personal immunity. It was a saying, that to live in...
GOD’S wrath, thus revealed in human life through the consequences of man’s rejection of GOD, is also seen in the judgment of GOD upon man’s conduct—the only just judgment (1) because all men being imp...
The nexus seems to be this: do you calculate that this correct attitude towards sin in others will exempt your case from being considered by GOD, or are you merely indifferent to His merciful dealing...
ΛΟΓΊΖΗ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) 2 pers. sing. от_ ΛΟΓΊΖΩ (G3049) подводить итоги, считать, полагать, ΌΤ (G3754) что, передает содержание надежды, ΣΎ (G4771) ты, эмфатическое, используется, утобы под...
DISCOURSE: 1824 THOSE WHO JUDGE OTHERS, JUDGED Romans 2:3. Thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despise...
_TEXT_ Romans 2:1-11. Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou are that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practice the same...
_RETHINKING IN OUTLINE FORM_ THE NEED OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS, Romans 2:1-16 The Jews Were Truly in Need of Justification, for: If God's judgment was going to be: 1. According to truth. Roman...
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? AND THINKEST [ logizee (G3049)] - 'reckonest' THOU THIS, O M...
_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...
THE FAILURE OF THE JEWS In Romans 1 St. Paul showed that the Gentiles were under God's judgment on account of sin. Now he is about to turn to the Jews. He asserts first, that God's judgment will fall...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL’S ANSWERS TO THOSE WHO *JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE 2:1-16 1. THEY CANNOT AVOID GOD’S JUDGEMENT 2:1-4 v1 So, you who *...
THAT THOU SHALT ESCAPE. — Emphatic. “Are _you_ — because you are a Jew — to be the only exception to this rule_?_”...
CHAPTER 6 HUMAN GUILT UNIVERSAL: HE APPROACHES THE CONSCIENCE OF THE JEW Romans 2:1 WE have appealed, for affirmation of St. Paul's tremendous exposure of human sin, to a solemn and deliberate self-...
σὺ has strong emphasis. The Jew certainly thought, in many cases, that the privilege of his birth would of itself ensure his entrance into the kingdom (Matthew 3:8-9): this was his practical convictio...
The Apostle has now to prove that the righteousness of God is as necessary to the Jew as to the pagan; it is the Jew who is really addressed in this chapter from the beginning, though he is not named...
LEAVE JUDGMENT UNTO GOD Romans 2:1 In this chapter the Apostle turns to address the Jews. His purpose is to prove that though they may deem themselves superior to the Gentiles and capable of judging...
It is evident that the apostle here turned to the Jew, though he did not immediately name him. He charged the Jew with the sin of practicing the very evils he condemned in the Gentiles. He is at least...
FIFTH PASSAGE (2:1-29). THE WRATH OF GOD SUSPENDED OVER THE JEWISH PEOPLE. In the midst of this flood of pollutions and iniquities which Gentile society presents to view, the apostle sees one who lik...
_ VV._ 3. “ _But thou countest upon this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?_ ” We might, with Hofmann, take the verbs λογίζ...
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...
3._And thinkest thou, O man, etc. _As rhetoricians teach us, that we ought not to proceed to give strong reproof before the crime be proved, Paul may seem to some to have acted unwisely here for havin...
Two things are presented here with respect to God; His judgment against evil the evil-doer shall not escape (the real difference of right and wrong would be maintained by judgment); and His mercy, pat...
AND THINKEST THOU THIS, O MAN, THAT JUDGEST THEM WHICH DO SUCH THINGS, AND DOEST THE SAME,.... Some men may be so vain as to imagine, that though they do the same things which they condemn in others,...
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Ver. 3. _Thinkest thou_] This is preaching to the conscience, to...
_But we are sure_ Greek, οιδαμεν, _we know;_ though men may judge partially and perversely, yet God will judge uprightly; _that the judgment of God_ The sentence that he will pronounce upon persons, w...
AND THINKEST THOU THIS, O MAN, THAT JUDGEST THEM WHICH DO SUCH THINGS, AND DOEST THE SAME, THAT THOU SHALT ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF GOD?...
THE GUILT OF THE JEWS. Correct knowledge and judgment alone avails nothing:...
THE CASE OF THE CULTURED GREEK But there is a class of Gentiles who are quite keen in seeing these evils in others, and unhesitatingly judging them for them, while never considering that the same judg...
ROMANS 2:1-16 1. Is anyone going to escape the judgment of God? a. What does Paul mean when he says, "There is not respect of persons with God?" i. Good and bad will be judged with fairness ii. Th...
__ Romans 2:3 And reckonest thou this,. man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 'Reckonest' -'do you suppose' (NASV); 'what m...
1-16 The Jews thought themselves a holy people, entitled to their privileges by right, while they were unthankful, rebellious, and unrighteous. But all who act thus, of every nation, age, and descrip...
When other men's facts escape not thy censure, who art but a man; what folly and madness is it to imagine, that thine own evil deeds should escape the judgment of God! See 1 JOHN 3:20....
And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? [The argument may be paraphrased thus: Yielding to the force...
Romans 2:3 And G1161 think G3049 (G5736) this G5124 O G5599 man G444 judge G2919 (G5723) practicing...
EVEN RESPECTABLE MEN, JUDGES, PHILOSOPHERS, RABBIS AND JEWS COME UNDER GOD'S JUDGMENT AS SINNERS (2:1-16). Having demonstrated the sinfulness and inexcusability of the majority of mankind, Paul now tu...
‘And do you reckon this, O man, who judges those who practise such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?' So let them just think about it. They have set themselves up as j...
1. _The Ground on which all men are Judged_ The Jews would at once assent to the truthfulness of the previous description; but while condemning the Gentiles, they would mentally excuse themselves. To...
2. THE SINFULNESS OF THE JEWS, AS A PROOF OF THEIR NEED OF THE GOSPEL. This passage contains the second part of the proof of the universality of sin, and hence of the universal need of the gospel, whe...
Romans 2:3. BUT RECKONEST THOU, etc. There is a slight antithesis here: ‘but (although this is the case, that God's judgment is against, etc.) dost thou reckon,' etc., have this opinion, or fancy. TH...
AND DOEST THE SAME (κα ποιων αυτα). "And doest them occasionally."THAT THOU SHALT ESCAPE (συ εκφευξη). Emphasis on συ, "thou conceited Jew expecting to escape God's κριμα because thou art a Jew....
Romans 2 The Practical Outcome of Judaism. I. The first thing on which St. Paul lays anxious stress in this passage is this: The judgment of God according to men's works is just, inevitable, and impa...
CONTENTS: The equal standing of Jew and Gentile before the justice of God. Morality apart from Christ useless as means of salvation. Jews knowing the law condemned by the law. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLU...
Romans 2:1. _Therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man,_ whether Roman or Jew, who judgest another, and doest the same thing thyself, though it may be in some other way. But as the judgment of God is acc...
_And thinkest thou … that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?_ THE SINNERS’ FOLLY I. Their conduct. 1. They judge others. 2. Forget themselves. 3. Dream of impunity. II. Its folly. There is b...
_Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest._ MAN’S INEXCUSABLENESS I. Because-- 1. He has a knowledge of his duty. 2. He was created with ability to perform it. 3. He...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:1 Most interpreters say that Paul focuses on the sin of the Jews throughout this chapter. Another view is that the sin of the moral person (whether Jewish or Gentile) who judge...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 2:1. THEREFORE THOU ART INEXCUSABLE, O MAN.—διό, because the above description of the wickedness of mankind is true (in its main features) universally. O MAN.—A general designa...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 2:1 (_b_) _Those who judge others, not excepting the Jews. _Here a new stage of the argument, in proof of the position propounded in Romans 1:18, begins, and is continued to the end...
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judges (Romans 2:1): You see, I read this list and I say, "Oh, yes, it is horrible. My, I just don't know what we are going to do, the w...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Samuel 10:3; Daniel 10:19; Ezekiel 17:15;...
Reckonest [λ ο γ ι ζ η]. See on 1 Peter 5:12. Intimating a process of reasoning. Thou shalt escape. Thou emphatic, opposed to Jewish self - conceit....
THE WRATH AND JUDGMENTS OF GOD Romans 1:32; Romans 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we listen to the pulsings of twentieth century thought, we find that God is not only being denied by many, but his wrath...
THE SINFUL HEART Romans 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's X-ray picture of the human heart. At the close of the first chapter of Romans, there is such a graphic description of the heart of sin, that...
That thou shalt escape — Rather than the gentile....