McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Romans 1:19
because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
Verse 19. _THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD_] Dr. Taylor paraphrases this and the following verse thus: "Although the Gentiles had no written revelation, yet what may be known of God is every where man...
BECAUSE - The apostle proceeds to show how it was that the pagan hindered the truth by their iniquity. This he does by showing that the truth might be known by the works of creation; and that nothing...
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...
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...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
For the wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven, directed against all impiousness and wickedness of men, who, in their wickedness, wilfully suppress the truth that is struggling in their hearts, fo...
KNOWN. See Acts 1:19. MANIFEST. Greek. _phaneros._ App-106. HATH. Omit. SHEWED. manifested. Greek. _phaneroo._ App-106....
_that which may be known of God_ Lit. THAT WHICH IS KNOWN; i.e. ideally known; that which, under any circumstances, man has known. The E. V. is thus practically right. The word "knowable" has of late...
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...
ΔΙΌΤΙ gives the reason for the wrath. For (Blass, p. 274) they knew GOD (19–21 _a_, expanding τὴν�. κατ.), but did not act on this knowledge (21 _b_–23, expanding ἐν�.). There should be a full stop or...
ΔΙΌΤΙ (G1360) потому что. Указывает на причину предшествующего (Godet). ΓΝΩΣΤΌΣ (G1110) известный или познававмый. ΈΨΑΝΈΡΩΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΦΑΝΕΡΌΩ (G5318) прояснять, проявлять. Гномический _ao...
IS MANIFEST IN THEM, &C.— _Is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it unto them._ See the next verse, and chap. Romans 2:15....
PART TWO JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN THE GOSPEL, Romans 1:16 to Romans 11:36 I. Proposition Stated. Romans 1:16-17 1. Not ashamed of the Gospel....
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD, [ to (G3588) gnooston (G1110)]. Three senses have been put upo...
1 Paul dates his apostleship from the commission he received at Antioch (Act_13:2) when he was severed from the rest to preach the evangel of God to the nations. Hitherto only Jews and proselytes like...
1:19 is (g-3) Or 'may be.' The Greek word here is used for 'may be known.' What is spoken of here is 'knowledge acquirable by nature in contrast with revelation,' it means what is within the capacity...
KNOWN.. IN THEM] i.e. nature teaches a knowledge of God, and man has the faculty of receiving the teaching....
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...
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...
The Apostle goes on to show how the Gentiles came to have such a knowledge of right, and how they repressed and contravened it. They had it, because all the knowledge that mankind generally possessed...
CHAPTER 4 NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD'S ANGER AND MAN'S SIN Romans 1:18 WE have as it were touched the heart of the Apostle as he weighs the prospect of his Roman visit, and feels, almost in one sensat...
THE ONLY POWER OF SALVATION Romans 1:13 We owe everything to our Lord, but since we can make Him no direct return, He has made men His residuary legatees. We are to think of others as having a claim...
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...
(9) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in (c) them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. (9) By their ungodliness he proves that although all men have a most clear and evident mirror i...
That which is known of God. Or may be easily known of God, is manifest in them. The light of reason demonstrates to them the existence of one God, the maker and preserver of all things. This is made k...
“ _Seeing that that which may be known of God is manifested in them; for God hath manifested it unto them. For the invisible perfections of God, his eternal power and his divinity are spiritually cont...
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...
FUNDAMENTAL PART. 1:18-5:21. THE principal subdivision of this part is indicated by the somewhat amplified repetition of Romans 1:17, which we shall find Romans 3:21-22. There we again meet with the p...
FIRST SECTION (1:18-3:20). THE WRATH OF GOD RESTING ON THE WHOLE WORLD. From Romans 1:18, St. Paul is undoubtedly describing the miserable state of the _Gentile world._ From the beginning of chap. 2 h...
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;...
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...
_JEW AND GREEK_ ‘To the Jew first, and also to the Greek.’ Romans 1:16 The Jew and the Greek were respectively the loftiest and the noblest exponents of the races and religions of the East and the...
19._Inasmuch as what may be known of God, etc. _He thus designates what it behoves us to know of God; and he means all that appertains to the setting forth of the glory of the Lord, or, which is the s...
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...
BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD,.... There are some things which could not be known of God by the light of nature; as a trinity of persons in the Godhead; the knowledge of God in Christ as Medi...
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed _it_ unto them. Ver. 19. _Because that which may_] Heathens might know God the Creator, per species creaturarum (as the...
_Because that which may be known of God_ Those great principles which are indispensably necessary to be known, such as his existence, his unity, his power, his wisdom, his goodness, and his righteous...
THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN; the character of God as manifested in his works. GOD HATH SHOWED IT; in creation and providence....
THE MORAL DECAY OF THE GENTILE WORLD. The refusal to heed the natural revelation of God:...
BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD IS MANIFEST IN THEM; FOR GOD HATH SHOWED IT UNTO THEM....
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...
ROMANS 1:18-25 1. Is man responsible for his own unrighteousness and misunderstanding about God? a. What is the one visible practice that man does when he misunderstands the nature of God? i. Idola...
IN THEM: Or, to them...
BECAUSE THAT WHICH IS KNOWN OF GOD IS MANIFEST IN THEM; FOR GOD MANIFESTED IT UNTO THEM. 'because' -the reason that God's wrath is revealed against such. They are not IGNORANT! 'IS MANIFEST' -'lies...
18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he h...
THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD; or, that which is knowable of God, viz. by the light of nature. The apostle, by a prolepis, prevents an objection which some might make in excuse of the Gentiles: how c...
Origen Against Celsus Book III And he bears witness that they knew God, and says, too, that this did not happen to them without divine permission, in these words: "For God showed it unto them; "[154]...
Romans 1:19 because G1360 known G1110 God G2316 is G2076 (G5748) manifest G5318 in G1722 them G846 for...
THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN BECAUSE OF MAN'S UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (1:18-21). In stark contrast to the righteousness of God being revealed (Romans 1:17), we have the wrath of Go...
‘Because that which is known of God is manifest in them, for God manifested it to them.' God's wrath is revealed against such people because they have no real excuse for not seeing the truth. For what...
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...
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...
Romans 1:19. BECAUSE. Here begins the statement _why_ God's wrath was revealed, which is also a proof that they hold back the truth in unrighteousness. ‘If they did so out of ignorance, they would be...
BECAUSE (διοτ). Gives the reason (δια, οτ like our "for that") for the revelation of God's wrath.THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD (το γνωστον του θεου). Verbal adjective from γινωσκω, either "the kn...
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...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
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...
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...
GOD PUNISHES THEM. God did not "cut off" the Gentiles and leave them with no knowledge at all of him. Melchizedek and Balaam were both priests of God _outside_ of the Law of Moses. There could have be...
_Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them._ WHAT ACQUAINTANCE MAN CAN HAVE OF GOD WITHOUT DIVINE REVELATION Consider-- I. His means of informatio...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:19 THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. The entire natural world reveals God through its beauty, complexity, design, and usefulness. WITHOUT EXCUSE. God has given sufficient evidence of...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:18 God’s Righteousness in His Wrath against Sinners. God’s wrath is rightly revealed against all people, since all have sinned (Romans 3:23). Paul de
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:18. THE WRATH OF GOD.—ὀργὴ Θεοῦ, God’s displeasure. The phrase is plainly anthropopathic. May express a particular instance of displeasure. Romans 1:19. THAT WHICH MAY BE KN...
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...
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...
Acts 14:16; Acts 17:23; Isaiah 40:26; Jeremiah 10:10; John 1:9;...
That which may be known [τ ο γ ν ω σ τ ο ν]. So A. V. and Rev., as equivalent to that which is knowable. But that which is knowable was not revealed to the heathen. If it was, what need of a revelatio...
THE GOSPEL OF GOD Romans 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a SERVANT...
For what is to be known of God — Those great principles which are indispensably necessary to be known. Is manifest in them; for God hath showed it to them — By the light which enlightens every man tha...
Are the heathen lost? PROBLEM: Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me” (John 14:6). Also, Acts 4:12 says of Christ, “And there is salvation i...
That is, much of the nature and properties of God may be known by the light of nature; his infinite power, wisdom and goodness, are manifest in the minds and the consciences of all men; FOR GOD HATH S...