Romans 15:3

Romans 15:3. For Christ also, etc. ‘Also' is slightly preferable to ‘even.' ‘The example of Christ is for the believer the new law to be made real (Galatians 6:2); hence the for also ' (Godet).

But, as it is written (Psalms 69:9), the reproaches of them reproaching thee fell upon me. The citation is from the LXX., which literally reproduces the Hebrew. The clause may be connected directly with ‘but;' some supplying: ‘it came to pass,' before it is written. In the Psalm, ‘thee ' refers to God, and ‘me' to the Messiah, or the person who is a type of the Messiah. The sufferings of Christ, according to the Psalm, were to fulfil the Father's purpose; that this purpose was for the salvation of men gives the passage here its most appropriate application.