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Romans 4:3

γάρ (G1063) ибо. Следует воспринимать как частицу, вводящую аргумент: почему у Авраама не было оснований для хвастовства (Barrett),
έλογίσθη aor. ind. pass. от λογίζομαι (G3049) сводить счета. В бухгалтерском языке это значит "подводить баланс" (Ramsay, LP, 286f; Fitzmyer, 373). Использованиеевр. оборота в Genesis 15:6 (ל חשב) указывает, что речь идет не о том, что вера — эквивалент праведности, но скорее о том, что Бог даровал Аврааму статус праведника, которого он не имел (Моо; חשב в TDOT).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Romans 4:3. _FOR, WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?_] The Scriptural account of this transaction, Genesis 15:6, is decisive; for there it is said, _Abraham believed God, and it was counted_, ελογισθη, _...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? - The inspired account of Abraham’s justification. This account was final, and was to settle the question. This account is found in Genesis 15:6. ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD - I...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ROMANS 4:1_ A_. THE EXAMPLE OF ABRAHAM. Romans 4:1. The Jewish objector once more: What about Abraham then? (_mg.);_ if the circumcised Israelite is justified on no more favourable terms than the Gent...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather from whom we take our human descent, found? If Abraham entered into a right relationship with God by means of work, he has some ground for boastin...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FAITH WHICH TAKES GOD AT HIS WORD (Romans 4:1-8)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE SCRIPTURE. Genesis 15:6. ABRAHAM. Read, "Now Abraham. " BELIEVED. App-150. counted. reckoned, imputed. Greek. _logizomai._ See Romans 2:3 (Paul quotes the Septuagint) UNTO. to. RIGHTEOUSNESS....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _what saith the scripture?_ See on Romans 1:17. _Abraham believed_, &c. Lit. BUT ABRAHAM BELIEVED, &c. The particle is, perhaps, significant; emphasizing the verb. The Gr. is verbatim from LXX. of Gen...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΊ ΓᾺΡ Ἡ ΓΡ. Λ. Genesis 15:6; Galatians 3:6; James 2:23. ἘΠΊΣΤΕΥΣΕΝ. Here primarily of belief in GOD’s word: but this belief implied trust in the faithfulness and power of GOD, and was therefore essen...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1836 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE Romans 4:1. What shall we then say that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IT WAS COUNTED— The original word 'Ελογισθη, in our translation, is rendered _counted, reckoned,_ Romans 4:4, &c. and _imputed,_ Romans 4:6, &c.: but as the word and the sense are constantly the same,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _TEXT_ Romans 4:1-8. What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh? Romans 4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT (THAT IS, HIS BELIEVING) WAS COUNTED UN...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:3 say? (b-6) See Genesis 15:6 . as (c-17) I am not quite satisfied with 'as;' but it is the nearest approach to the sense in English. 'For,' I object to; because then faith is made of positive wort...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    The Apostle gives a proof of this from Scripture. Abraham was not justified by works, and therefore had nothing to boast of in God’s sight. He was justified by faith. His righteousness was not real, b...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 10 ABRAHAM AND DAVID Romans 4:1 THE Jewish disputant is present still to the Apostle's thought. It could not be otherwise in this argument. No question was more pressing on the Jewish mind t...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The justification of Abraham, considered in relation to the doctrine just expounded in Romans 3:21-31. The point to be made out is that the justification of Abraham does not traverse but illustrates t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BLESSEDNESS FOLLOWS FAITH Romans 4:1 In this chapter the doctrine of justification by faith is illustrated from the life of Abraham. It is evident that he was not justified because of his good works....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (3) For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. (3) A confirmation of the proposition: Abraham was justified by imputation of faith, and therefo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. [1] The Scripture, therefore, teacheth us that he became just by his faith. And as he had this faith by the...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    1. ROMANS 4:1-12. Abraham was justified _by faith_, Romans 4:1-8, and by faith _alone_, Romans 4:9-12....

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _For what saith the Scripture? Now Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh his reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt. But to him tha...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? (2) For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. (3) For what saith the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH_ ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.’ Romans 4:3 What was Abraham’s standing before God? If it was one of blessed acceptance, how was that...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._For what saith the Scripture? _This is a proof of the minor proposition, or of what he assumed, when he denied that Abraham had any ground for glorying: for if Abraham was justified, because he emb...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?.... This answers to דכתיב מאי, "what is that which is written" c? or what does the Scripture say? which is a way of speaking used by the Jews, when anything is proposed,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Ver. 3. _Abraham believed God_] Latomus of Louvain was not ashamed to write that there was no other...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Rom. 4:3, 4. "What saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." The apostle lays stress upon the word _counted_, or _imputed_. If he had had a righteousne...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For what saith the Scripture?_ What is Moses's account of this matter? _Abraham believed God_ Namely, that promise of God, recorded Genesis 15:5, that he should have a seed numerous as the stars. As...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    HE HATH WHEREOF TO GLORY; if his works are the meritorious ground of his justification, he is saved of debt, not of grace. He might glory in his works as the ground of his salvation, and take to himse...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD DEMONSTRATED FROM HISTORY. The justification of Abraham:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS COUNTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    __ Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. 'For what saith the scripture?' -in the scriptures we don't find Abraham 'boasti...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-12 To meet the views of the Jews, the apostle first refers to the example of Abraham, in whom the Jews gloried as their most renowned forefather. However exalted in various respects, he had nothing...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The scripture referred to is in GENESIS 15:6. The apostle a little varies the words; in Genesis it is _he believed in God, _ but here HE BELIEVED GOD: again, in Genesis it is expressed actively, _he c...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    For what saith the scripture? [Genesis 15:6] _And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness_. [Now, of course, Abraham was some way justified. If he was justified by works,...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    1 Clement And again [the Scripture] saith, "God brought forth Abram, and spake unto him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars if thou be able to number them; so shall thy seed be. And Abram bel...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Romans 4:3 For G1063 what G5101 Scripture G1124 say G3004 (G5719) G1161 Abraham G11 believed G4100 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WAY OF JUSTIFICATION THROUGH FAITH ILLUSTRATED IN ABRAHAM AND ANNOUNCED BY DAVID (4:1-8). Paul now demonstrates that Abraham's acceptability with God was by faith, not works, something which is th...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.” ' Having in Romans 4:2 introduced the idea of God ‘reckoning' something (counting it as so e...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Romans 4:3. FOR WHAT FAITH THE SCRIPTURE! This introduces the Scriptural proof of the fact that Abraham has no ground of glorying toward God, and hence of the main position that the Old Testament teac...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    IT WAS RECKONED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS (ελογισθη εις δικαιοσυνην). First aorist passive indicative of λογιζομα, old and common verb to set down accounts (literally or metaphorically). It was se...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GOD Jehovah. (Genesis 15:6). COUNTED Or, reckoned, or imputed, that is, put to the account of. See (Philemon 1:18); same word: RIGHTEOUSNESSS See (Romans

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. Paul quotes Genesis 15:6 here, and in Galatians 3:6; also James 2:23. Abraham believed God's promise to him of a son by Sarah, and this faith was the basis on which God accepted hi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 4:3 Abraham had a right standing before God by believing, not by doing (Genesis 15:6). ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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-...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 1:20; 2 Peter 1:21; Galatians 3:6; Genesis 15:6; Isaiah 8:20;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    The Scripture [η γ ρ α φ η]. The scripture passage. See on John 2:22; and foot - note on John 5:47. It was counted for righteousness [ε λ ο γ ι σ θ η ε ι ς δ ι κ α ι ο σ υ ν η ν]. For the phrase logiz...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Abraham believed God — That promise of God concerning the numerousness of his seed, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:7; but especially the promise concerning Christ, Genesis 12:3, through whom all nations sho...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. The account which the scripture gives of Abraham's justification; it was by faith alone; HE BELIEVED GOD AND WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS: That is, he firmly believed the pr...

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