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Verse Romans 3:31. _DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?_] 1.
By _law_ here we may understand the whole of the Mosaic law, in its
_rites_ and _ceremonies_; of which Jesus Christ was the _subje...
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DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW - Do we render it vain and useless; do we
destroy its moral obligation; and do we prevent obedience to it, by
the doctrine of justification by faith? This was an objection...
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3. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED.
Justification, what it is and what it Includes. Chapter 3:21-5:11.
CHAPTER 3:21-31
_ 1. The Righteousness of God Manifested. (Romans 3:21 .)_
2. Just and Just...
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A new chapter opens in human history the achievement of REDEMPTION IN
CHRIST JESUS.
Romans 3:21. In the desperation to which man's sin, brought home to
him by the Law, has reduced him, a manifestation...
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GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
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Where, then, is there any ground for boasting? It is completely shut
out. Through what kind of law? Through the law of works? No, but
through the law of faith. So, then, we reckon that a man enters in...
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MAKE VOID. Greek. _katargeo,_ as Romans 3:3.
YEA. Nay. Greek. _alla._...
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_Do we then_ This verse stands very much by itself, a sort of brief
paragraph. A serious objection (on the part of the Jew) is anticipated
and strongly negatived; but the discussion of it is postponed...
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ΝΌΜΟΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν Κ.Τ.Λ. An anticipatory caution, worked out in
ch. 6. The Gospel does not abolish law by insisting on faith as
man’s sole contribution; it represents law as fulfilled in Christ,
and in man...
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The failure of Jew and Gentile alike is met by the new dispensation of
the Gospel, with the condition it demands of man, faith. The argument
having explained ‘the revelation of wrath,’ returns to the...
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ΚΑΤΑΡΓΟΫ́ΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ КАΤΑΡΓΈΩ
(G2673) делать бездейственным (_см._ Romans
3:3).
ΓΈΝΟΙΤΟ _aor._ opt. _med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096)
быть (_см._ Romans 3:4).
ΊΣΤΆΝΟΜΕΝ praes. ind
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DISCOURSE: 1835
FAITH ESTABLISHES THE LAW
Romans 3:31. _Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid:
yea, we establish the law_.
A GENERAL prejudice obtains against the way of salvation by...
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YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW— Meaning, _through faith._ He did _not
make void law through faith,_ but, on the contrary, _established law
through faith._ Now this demonstrates that _law,_ in this chapter,...
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_TEXT_
Romans 3:27-31. Where then is the glorifying? It is excluded. By what
manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith. Romans 3:28 We
reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart...
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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.
DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? 'Does this doctrine of
justification by faith, then, dissolve the obli...
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_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_
19 The passages from the Psalms might be turned by the Jews to apply
to the nations. But the apostle rightly insists that what is written
in the law is binding upon those und...
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THE LAW] RM 'law.' God's will is brought out more fully in the gospel
(cp. Matthew 5:17.), and the believer is enabled to fulfil it: cp. 6,
Romans 8:4; Galatians 2:19....
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THE NEW WAY OF ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD
In Romans 1:2 St. Paul has shown that both Gentile and Jew have sinned
wilfully, and are under God's condemnation. He now digresses to Jewish
objections against the...
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PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS
ROMANS
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 3
SOME *JEWISH PROTESTS AGAINST PAUL’S THOUGHTS 3:1-8
V1 Someone might ask whether the *Jews received any real advanta...
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(27-31) A review of the consequences of this process of justification.
How does it affect the pretensions of the Jew? It shuts them out by
laying stress no longer on works, which were the proper fulfi...
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DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW. — In opposition to many commentators
it seems right to take this as an isolated statement to be worked out
afterwards (Romans 6:1 _et seq._) more fully. It cannot, withou...
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CHAPTER 9
THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE
Romans 3:21
So then "there is silence" upon earth, that man may hear the "still,
small voice," "the sound of stillness," 1 Kings 19:12 from the
heavens. "T...
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In these verses the positive exposition of the righteousness of God as
offered to faith through the redemption in Christ Jesus, is concluded.
The Apostle points out two inferences which can be drawn f...
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νόμον οὖν καταργοῦμεν διὰ τῆς
πίστεως; Do we then annul “law” through the faith we have
been discussing? Perhaps if Law were written with a capital letter, it
would suggest the true meaning. The Apost...
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ALL FREELY JUSTIFIED BY GRACE
Romans 3:21
From the universal need the Apostle turns to the all-sufficient
remedy. The Law and the Prophets hinted dimly at justification by
faith, but did not unveil i...
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Paul here turned to a brief discussion of certain objections. First,
"What advantage, then, hath the Jew?" He replied, "Much, every way."
He then mentioned only one, which he spoke of as being "first...
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(13) Do we then make (h) void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we (i) establish the law.
(13) The taking away of an objection: yet the law is not therefore
taken away, but is rather establishe...
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_Do we then destroy the law through faith? No: but we establish the
law. See the words of Christ: (Matthew v. 17.) 1. Because the figures
and types of the law of Moses, and the predictions of the prop...
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“ _Do we then make void the law through faith? That be far from us!
Much rather we establish the law._ ”
This verse has been misunderstood by most commentators. Some (Aug.,
Luth., Mel., Calv., Philip....
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NINTH PASSAGE (3:27-31). THE HARMONY OF THIS MODE OF JUSTIFICATION
WITH THE TRUE MEANING OF THE LAW.
The apostle had asserted, Romans 3:21, that _the law_ and _the
prophets_ themselves bear witness to...
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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay:
but by the law of faith. (28) Therefore we conclude that a man is
justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (29) Is he the Go...
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REFLECTIONS
Reader! behold the awful state by nature, both of Jew and Gentile!
See, what a portrait to humble our souls to the dust, the Lord the
Spirit hath twice drawn, in his sacred pages; once by...
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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...
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31._Do we then make, etc. _When the law is opposed to faith, the flesh
immediately suspects that there is some contrariety, as though the one
were adverse to the other: and this false notion prevails,...
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Having established the great truth that God required real moral
goodness, he considers the position of the Jews. Could they not plead
special divine favour? Was there no advantage in Judaism? Surely t...
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DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH?.... Which question is
answered by way of detestatation,
GOD FORBID! and by asserting the contrary,
YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW. The law is not made void, ne...
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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law.
Ver. 31. _We establish the law_] Which yet the Antinomians cry down,
calling repentance a legal grace, humiliation a...
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_Is he the God of the Jews only?_ He argues from the absurdity of such
a supposition. Can it be imagined that a God of infinite love and
mercy should limit and confine his favours to the little perver...
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MAKE VOID THE LAW; the law of God, as a rule of action, and sacredly
binding on all who know it. Does the fact that God saves sinners
through faith in Christ, lessen the sanctity and authority of his...
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DO WE, THEN, MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID! YEA, WE
ESTABLISH THE LAW.
Here the apostle offers the conclusion of the glorious plan of
salvation as he has just unfolded it. Since this is...
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The great conclusion of the apostle:...
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JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
The righteousness of God revealed:...
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WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW?
Since God requires subjection _of heart_ from the Jew, and at the same
time honors a like subjection of heart in the Gentiles, the question
arises, "What advantage then hat...
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ROMANS 3:21-31
1. How can one be justified by faith?
a. Justification by faith as related to the law
i. Was justification tied to the law?
1. Apart from the law 21
2. Apart from works of the law...
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DO WE THEN MAKE THE LAW OF NONE EFFECT THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID: NAY,
WE ESTABLISH THE LAW.
'Do we then make the law of none effect' -'Does that mean that we are
using faith to rob the law of its f...
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27-31 God will have the great work of the justification and salvation
of sinners carried on from first to last, so as to shut out boasting.
Now, if we were saved by our own works, boasting would not...
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DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? A very material objection
is here to be anticipated and answered, viz. that by establishing
justification by faith alone the law is rendered useless, and th...
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Tertullian On Modesty
But he had withal said above: "Are we, then, making void the law
through faith? Far be it; but we are establishing the law "[61]...
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Romans 3:31 we G2673 then G3767 void G2673 (G5719) law G3551 through
G1223 faith G4102 not G3361...
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‘Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? Let it not
be. No, we establish the law.'
He now deals with a final objection. Is he not making the law of none
effect by making salvation obtain...
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1. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS TO ALL, JEW AND GENTILE, BY FAITH.
The section opens (Romans 3:21) with the statement of the theme of
this division, as contrasted with Romans 3:20; Romans 3:22-26 set
for...
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2. RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS BY FAITH.
The theme of this second main division of the doctrinal part of the
Epistle may be found in Romans 3:21: (1.) The righteousness of God
apart from the law has bee...
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Romans 3:31. DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? This verse
may be regarded either as the proposition of chap. 4, or as the
conclusion of the preceding argument. It is both in fact, being a
tr...
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NAY, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW
(αλλα νομον ιστανομεν). Present indicative active of
late verb ιστανω from ιστημ. This Paul hinted at in verse
Romans 3:21. How he will show in chapter 4 how Abraham himsel...
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DO WE THEN
The sinner establishes the law in its right use and honour by
confessing his guilt, and acknowledging that by it he is justly
condemned. Christ, on the sinner's behalf, establishes the law...
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Romans 3:31 ; ROMANS 4
A Crucial Case.
I. It was by his faith Abraham was justified, not by his works of
obedience. Paul's proof of this is very simple. He finds a remarkable
proof-text ready to his...
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Romans 3:19. _Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it
saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by t...
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Romans 3:9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we
have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under
sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: T...
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Romans 3:1. _What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there
of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God._
It was a great thing to be...
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CONTENTS: The common guilt of both Jew and Gentile. Justification by
faith, not by the law.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONCLUSION: The sum of all sin is coming short of the glory of God for
which we we...
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The first part of this chapter, as far as the twentieth verse, belongs
to the two preseding Chapter s, and confirms, by the words of David,
the deplorable state of fallen man.
Romans 3:1. _What advant...
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DOES THIS MEAN? The Law = the whole Jewish religion. Does salvation by
faith make the Law useless? The answer is no, not at all! The Law is
upheld for the first time (Romans 8:4_ and note)._ See what...
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_Is He the God of the Jews only?_
THE DIVINE UNITIES
I. One God.
II. One law.
III. One faith.
IV. One ultimate purpose. (_J. Lyth, D. D._)
IS HE NOT ALSO OF THE GENTILES?_--_
The universal Fath...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:31 Although Paul supports the lasting moral
teachings of the law (UPHOLD), he knows that some will accuse him of
abandoning it (OVERTHROW). He will defend himself against such...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 3:27.—Where is then the glorying? Such is the most literal
and most correct rendering of the clause. Almost tantamount to the
expression, Where is then their glorying?
Romans...
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EXPOSITION
ROMANS 3:1
(2) _Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met.
_In_ _this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle
meets certain objections that might be ma...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans 3.
Paul has just told the Jews that having the law does not justify a
person. It is the keeping of the law that justifies one. That
uncircumcision really has...
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1 Corinthians 9:21; Galatians 2:19; Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:17;...
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LAW AND GRACE
Romans 3:19
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The meaning and scope of the Law. Law is a word filled with glory,
but wholly foreign to Grace. Law is the measure of the holy
requirements of a righ...
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We establish the law — Both the authority, purity, and the end of
it; by defending that which the law attests; by pointing out Christ,
the end of it; and by showing how it may be fulfilled in its puri...
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Observe here, The wise and holy caution which our apostle uses to take
away the calumny and reproach cast upon him, by the adversaries of the
doctrine of free justification by faith; as if this would...