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ROMANS 4:15 de, {B}
As far as external evidence is concerned, the reading ou- de, appears
to be rather decisively supported (a* A B C 81 _al_). On the other
hand, if ou- ga,r were original, one could...
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Verse Romans 4:15. _BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH_] For law
νομος, any law, or rule of duty. No law makes provision for the
exercise of mercy, for it worketh wrath, οργην, punishment, for
the disobed...
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BECAUSE THE LAW - All law. It is the tendency of law.
WORKETH WRATH - Produces or causes wrath. While man is fallen, and a
sinner, its tendency, so far from justifying him, and producing peace,
is jus...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. The Witness of Abraham to Justification. (Romans 4:1 .)_
2. As Confirmed also by David. (Romans 4:6 .)
3. Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant. (Romans 4:9 .)
4. Faith in Him Who Ra...
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ROMANS 4:11 _B -_ ROMANS 4:17_ A._ ABRAHAM'S RELATION TO MANKIND. With
Abraham's faith a great prospect opened for humanity.
Romans 4:11_ b_,...
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THE FAITH WHICH TAKES GOD AT HIS WORD (Romans 4:1-8)...
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It was not through law that there came to Abraham or to his seed the
promise that he would inherit the earth, but it came through that
right relationship with God which has its origin in faith. If the...
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WORKETH. See Romans 1:27.
FOR. The texts read "but".
NO. not. App-105.
NO. neither. Greek. _oude._
TRANSGRESSION. See Romans 2:23....
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_the law worketh wrath: for_ "For" indicates that this statement
confirms that just made, namely, that inheritance by law must bar the
fulfilment of the promise. "The faith" in question was said to be...
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Ὁ ΓᾺΡ ΝΌΜΟΣ … ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΕΤΑΙ. This verse
indicates the true function of law, to show that it can have no effect
upon the promise; it neither makes nor unmakes the kinship with
Abraham, which is a kinshi...
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The relation of law to promise is very briefly treated, just to meet
the possible objection that the law is a condition of inheriting the
promise, even though it was not an original condition of the p...
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ΌΡΓΉ (G3709) гнев (_см._ Romans 1:18).
ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_
ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G2716) работать,
производить,
ΟΎ (G3756) где.
ΠΑΡΆΒΑΣΙΣ (G3847) преступление, выход за
рамки....
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WHERE NO LAW IS, &C.— "Of that concerning which there is no law,
with the sanction of a punishment annexed, there can be no
transgression, incurring wrath or punishment." Thus it may be
rendered, if w...
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_TEXT_
Romans 4:13-22. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or
to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the
righteousness of faith. Romans 4:14 For if they that are o...
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no
transgression.
BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH - has nothing to give to those who
break it but condemnation and vengeance:
FOR WHERE...
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_JUSTIFICATION-INDIVIDUAL_
13 As further developed in Galatians, the law was not given till
hundreds of years after Abraham was counted righteous. The promises he
received in connection with it were...
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4:15 law (b-2) Or 'For the law.'...
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Cp. Romans 3:20. FOR WHERE] RV 'but where.'...
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ACCEPTANCE BY FAITH FORESHADOWED IN THE OLD DISPENSATION
In Romans 3:21.; St. Paul set forth the great truth of acceptance by
faith. A Jew might object that it was new, and therefore not true. In
Roma...
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PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS
ROMANS
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 4
ABRAHAM’S *FAITH 4:1-8
V1 We shall talk about our *ancestor Abraham. He discovered how to be
*righteous. V2 But he d...
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(14-17) This Messianic kingdom cannot have anything to do with law;
for if it had, faith and the promise would cease to have any office.
Faith and law cannot co-exist. They are the opposites of each o...
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But in reality the Law is unable to admit them to this. It has an
entirely contrary function — namely, to call down punishment upon
the offences that it reveals. The Law and faith, therefore, mutually...
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IV.
(1-25) The subject of the chapter is an application of the foregoing
to the special (and crucial) case of Abraham, with particular
reference to two ideas that are continually recurring throughout...
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CHAPTER 11
ABRAHAM (2)
Romans 4:13
AGAIN we approach the name of Abraham, Friend of God, Father of the
Faithful. We have seen him justified by faith, personally accepted
because turning altogether t...
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The argument of Romans 4:9-12 is reiterated and confirmed here in
other terms. Abraham is the father of all believers: for it is not
through law that the promise is given to him or his seed, that he
s...
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ὀργήν : wrath, _i.e._, the wrath of God. See on Romans 1:18.
Under a legal dispensation sin is stimulated, and brought into clear
consciousness: men come under the wrath of God, and know that they do....
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THIS BLESSEDNESS IS FOR ALL
Romans 4:9
In Abraham's case it is clear that he was justified when he was still
a Gentile. The initial badge of Judaism was stamped upon him long
after he had believed Go...
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The apostle now dealt with another difficulty that might arise in the
mind of the Jew, showing that the method of grace, namely, imputing
righteousness in response to faith, is in harmony with the who...
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(13) Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no
transgression.
(13) A reason of the first confirmation, why the promise cannot be
apprehended by the law: because the law does n...
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_For the law worketh wrath, not of itself, nor by the intention of the
lawgiver, but in as much as it is the occasion of greater punishments,
when persons transgress it knowingly. (Witham) --- The law...
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“ _For the law worketh wrath: and, indeed_, _where no law is, there
is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by
grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not...
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TENTH PASSAGE (4:1-25). FAITH THE PRINCIPLE OF ABRAHAM'S
JUSTIFICATION.
Abraham being for the Jews the embodiment of salvation, his case was
of capital moment in the solution of the question here tre...
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For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to
Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith. (14) For if they which are of the law be
heirs, f...
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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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15._For the law causeth wrath, etc. _This is a confirmation of the
last verse, derived from the contrary effect of the law; for as the
law generates nothing but vengeance, it cannot bring grace. It ca...
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In dealing with the Jew, and even in dealing with the question of
righteousness, there was, besides the law, another consideration of
great weight both with the Jews themselves and in the dealings of...
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BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH,.... Not the wrath of man, though that
is sometimes stirred up through the prohibitions of the law, to which
the carnal mind of man is enmity, but the wrath of God the la...
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, _there is_ no
transgression.
Ver. 15. _No transgression_] _sc._ Is imputed by men where there is no
law written. See Romans 5:13 .
_ The law worke...
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BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; that is, this is its effect upon fallen
sinful men. It lays God's authority upon their consciences, without
furnishing the grace needful to enable them to overcome their...
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BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; FOR WHERE NO LAW IS, THERE IS NO
TRANSGRESSION....
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The promise is not by the Law:...
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ABRAHAM AND DAVID JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
Now there is deepest patience and grace shown on the part of God
through Paul, His instrument in writing this epistle: for it is
blessed to see that He gives no m...
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ROMANS 4:1-25
1. How was Abraham justified?
2. Could he have been justified by works?
a. Why or why not?
b. Faith excludes boasting 3:27
c. If saved by works, Abraham could glory
3. How did it h...
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13-22 The promise was made to Abraham long before the law. It points
at Christ, and it refers to the promise, Genesis 12:3. In Thee shall
all families of the earth be blessed. The law worketh wrath,...
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THE LAW WORKETH WRATH; i.e. the wrath of God: and this it doth not of
itself, but occasionally, in respect of our disobedience. This is a
confirmation of what was said in the foregoing verse, that the...
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for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there
transgression. [Abraham had, by reason of his human nature, to be
justified by his faith. If justification had to be earned, and...
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Romans 4:15 because G1063 law G3551 brings G2716 (G5736) wrath G3709
for G1063 where G3757 is G2076 ...
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WHAT PAUL HAS JUST DESCRIBED IS NOW SEEN TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
IDEAS RELATED TO ABRAHAM AND DAVID (4:1-25).
No one was of more importance to the Jews than Abraham. It was to him
that God had given...
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3). ABRAHAM ILLUSTRATES THE FACT THAT GOD'S GREATEST GIFTS DO NOT COME
TO US BECAUSE WE ‘OBEY THE LAW', BUT BECAUSE WE ‘BELIEVE IN THE
LORD' (4:13-25).
The importance of faith in the life of Abraham i...
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‘For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and
the promise is made of none effect. For the law works wrath; but where
there is no law, neither is there transgression.'
The promise...
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Romans 4:15. FOR. The statement that faith and the promise would be
ignored, if the inheritance is through the law, must be true, _for_
this reason.
THE LAW, the Mosaic law, as in the entire discuss...
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2. PROOF FROM THE CASE OF ABRAHAM, THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS BY FAITH.
The principle of faith, as the universal one, does not make void the
law. In the truest sense it is by this principle that ‘we establ...
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WORKETH WRATH
(οργην κατεργαζετα). Because of disobedience to
it.NEITHER IS THERE TRANSGRESSION
(ουδε παραβασις). There is no responsibility for the
violation of a non-existent law....
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TRANSGRESSION
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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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 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham our father as
pertaining to the flesh, hath found?_
What blessings did really come to Abraham, the father of the faithful?
What is the nature of that...
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Romans 4:1. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as
pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by
works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith...
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Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as
pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by
works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what sait...
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CONTENTS: Abraham justified by faith, not works. Justifying faith
defined.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Abraham, David, Sarah.
CONCLUSION: No man can pretend to merit eternal life, nor show any
worth in...
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Romans 4:1. _What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as
pertaining_ _to the flesh, hath found?_ How was he a sinner, an
idolater, justified? _Was it by the flesh,_ as indicated by the word
fa...
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_What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the
flesh, hath found?_
LESSONS FROM THE CASE OF ABRAHAM
I. However much the most perfect of the species may have to glory of
in the...
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_For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not …
through the law._
THE PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM
I. The promise, “that he should be heir of the world,” was made
not entirely to Abr...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:15 TRANSGRESSION. The violation of a
revealed command. The Jews, who had the written law, had even greater
responsibility for their sin. Paul argues elsewhere that sin also
exi...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:1 Abraham, the father of the Jewish people,
is presented as a test case for the view that justification is by
faith alone.
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 4:1.—Alford, following Meyer, says κατὰ σάρκα is in
contrast to κατὰ πνεῦμα, and refers to that part of our
being from which spring works in contrast with that which is the
ex...
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EXPOSITION
ROMANS 4:1
(5) _Abraham himself shown to have been justified by faith, and not by
works, believers being his true heirs._
The main points of the argument may be summarized thus: When Abra...
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Now what shall we say concerning Abraham the father, as pertaining to
the flesh, what did he find? For if Abraham were justified by his
works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God (Romans 4:1-...
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1 Corinthians 15:56; 1 John 3:4; 2 Corinthians 3:7; 2 Kings 22:13;...
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ABRAHAM AN EXEMPLAR OF FAITH
Romans 4:1, _Romans 4:13_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In our verses there are several things relative to the faith of
Abraham that are worthy of note:
1. WHAT DID ABRAHAM FIND A...
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Because the law — Considered apart from that grace, which though it
was in fact mingled with it, yet is no part of the legal dispensation,
is so difficult, and we so weak and sinful, that, instead of...
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Here the apostle suggests another reason, why no justification can be
executed by the law, because it condemns, rather than justifies. THE
LAW WORKETH WRATH: that is, it discovers the wrath of God due...