Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
Romans 2:16
My gospel. As distinguished from false teaching Paul's assurance of the truth of the Gospel is shown in his confident assertion that it will form the standard of judgment in the great day.
My gospel. As distinguished from false teaching Paul's assurance of the truth of the Gospel is shown in his confident assertion that it will form the standard of judgment in the great day.
ROMANS 2:16 Cristou/ VIhsou/ {C} In view of considerable doubt as to which sequence is original, the Committee preferred to adopt the reading supported by the oldest extant witnesses (a* vid B; Orig...
Verse Romans 2:16. _IN THE DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE_] And all this shall be farther exemplified and proved in the day when God shall judge the _secrets of men by Jesus Christ_; which judgment shall b...
IN THE DAY - This verse is doubtless to be connected with Romans 2:12, and the intermediate verses are a parenthesis, and it implies that the pagan world, as well as the Jews, will be arraigned at the...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Gentile Moralist and Reformer and His Condemnation. (Romans 2:1 .)_ 2. The Two Classes. (Romans 2:7 .) 3. The State of the Jew. (Romans 2:17 .)...
Some one interjects: I do not approve, I condemn the sins you describe. Then you condemn yourself, Paul retorts, for you _commit_ them! THE MORALIST UNDER CONDEMNATION, with the flagitious sinner. Thr...
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVILEGE (Romans 2:1-11)...
As many as sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of...
SHALL. will. SECRETS. Greek. _kruptos._ JESUS CHRIST. App-98....
_in the day_, &c. This sentence is often connected with the close of Romans 2:12. But the parenthesis is thus, even in the style of St Paul, highly difficult and peculiar; and Romans 2:13 stands in cl...
ἘΝ Ἧ ἩΜΈΡΑΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. = at the assize (by the judgment) of GOD who judges not by privilege or appearance but by the secret contents of a man’s heart: to be taken with the whole of the preceding sentence,...
These verses bring out, further, the principle of judgment in accordance with the opportunities a man has had and the use he has made of them. Privilege does not exempt from judgment but heightens res...
GOD’S wrath, thus revealed in human life through the consequences of man’s rejection of GOD, is also seen in the judgment of GOD upon man’s conduct—the only just judgment (1) because all men being imp...
ΚΡΊΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить. _Praes._ указывает на то, что будущее событие непременно произойдет, ΚΡΥΠΤΌΣ (G2927) скрытый....
THE SECRET OF MEN— Not, we conceive, their secret bad actions, but, agreeably to the preceding discourse, their moral state and circumstances under different degrees of light; which are _secrets_ now...
_RETHINKING IN OUTLINE FORM_ THE NEED OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS, Romans 2:1-16 The Jews Were Truly in Need of Justification, for: If God's judgment was going to be: 1. According to truth. Roman...
_TEXT_ Romans 2:12-16. For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law; Romans 2:13 for not the hearer...
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. IN THE DAY WHEN, [the received reading, hote (G3753), is better than hee (G3588), which Lachmann adopts]...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 16 Much of the judgment which obtains among men is unjust and oppressive because of their inability to uncover the real truth: But in the divine judgment the _ hidden _ thing...
THE FAILURE OF THE JEWS In Romans 1 St. Paul showed that the Gentiles were under God's judgment on account of sin. Now he is about to turn to the Jews. He asserts first, that God's judgment will fall...
MY GOSPEL] i.e. the message I am commissioned to preach: cp. Romans 16:25; 2 Timothy 2:8. Judgment by Christ is a distinctive doctrine of the gospel: cp. Matthew 25:31.;...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL’S ANSWERS TO THOSE WHO *JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE 2:1-16 1. THEY CANNOT AVOID GOD’S JUDGEMENT 2:1-4 v1 So, you who *...
This verse takes up the main thread of the subject. “God will judge Jew and Gentile alike at the last day.” It cannot refer (as some would make it) to what immediately precedes, because there the Apos...
CHAPTER 6 HUMAN GUILT UNIVERSAL: HE APPROACHES THE CONSCIENCE OF THE JEW Romans 2:1 WE have appealed, for affirmation of St. Paul's tremendous exposure of human sin, to a solemn and deliberate self-...
The Apostle has now to prove that the righteousness of God is as necessary to the Jew as to the pagan; it is the Jew who is really addressed in this chapter from the beginning, though he is not named...
The day meant here is the same as that in Romans 2:5. Westcott and Hort only put a comma after ἀπολογουμένων, but a longer pause is necessary, unless we are to suppose that only the day of judgment wa...
THE SEARCHER OF ALL HEARTS Romans 2:12 The Apostle goes on to show that all men, whether Jews or Gentiles, will be judged by the same standard. For the Jew that law was written upon the pages of the...
It is evident that the apostle here turned to the Jew, though he did not immediately name him. He charged the Jew with the sin of practicing the very evils he condemned in the Gentiles. He is at least...
(7) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to (m) my gospel. (7) God defers many judgments, which he will nonetheless execute at their convenient time by Jesus C...
“ _In the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel._ ” In this final proposition there is expressed and summed up the idea of the whole preceding passag...
FIFTH PASSAGE (2:1-29). THE WRATH OF GOD SUSPENDED OVER THE JEWISH PEOPLE. In the midst of this flood of pollutions and iniquities which Gentile society presents to view, the apostle sees one who lik...
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (13) (For not the hearers of the law just before God, but the do...
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...
_THE JUDGMENT_ ‘The day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.’ Romans 2:16 This verse should be joined to the tenth. That asserts an impartial judgment of...
16._In which God shall judge the secrets of men _(75) Most suitable to the present occasion is this periphrastic definition of judgment: it teaches those, who willfully hide themselves in the recesses...
Two things are presented here with respect to God; His judgment against evil the evil-doer shall not escape (the real difference of right and wrong would be maintained by judgment); and His mercy, pat...
IN THE DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE,.... These words are to be read in connection with Romans 2:13, and express the time when both Jews and Gentiles will be judged, called a "day", both because of the cle...
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. Ver. 16. _According to my gospel_] Which promiseth heaven to believers. This is comfort to those that are fa...
_In the day_, &c. This relates to Romans 2:12, the intermediate verses, from the 13th, being a parenthesis; _when God shall judge the secrets of men_ Not only their outward actions, good and evil, whi...
ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL; the judgment of the last day will be by Jesus Christ, as is revealed in the gospel which Paul preached. This verse is connected in sense with the twelfth; what intervenes is a...
IN THE DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE THE SECRETS OF MEN BY JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL. The apostle had plainly stated that the judgment of God on the last day would be a righteous judgment. This s...
THE NECESSITY OF KEEPING THE LAW PROPERLY. Not the hearing of the Law, but the doing of the Law has value:...
THE CASE OF THE CULTURED GREEK But there is a class of Gentiles who are quite keen in seeing these evils in others, and unhesitatingly judging them for them, while never considering that the same judg...
ROMANS 2:1-16 1. Is anyone going to escape the judgment of God? a. What does Paul mean when he says, "There is not respect of persons with God?" i. Good and bad will be judged with fairness ii. Th...
__ Romans 2:16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ. The Gospel reveals. coming judgement, in which Jesus will sit as Judge. (2 Corinthians 5:1...
1-16 The Jews thought themselves a holy people, entitled to their privileges by right, while they were unthankful, rebellious, and unrighteous. But all who act thus, of every nation, age, and descrip...
These words may be referred to ROMANS 2:12, and so they express the time when Jews and Gentiles shall be judged. Though some annex them to the words immediately preceding: q.d. Now the consciences of...
in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ. [This verse relates to the thought interrupted by the parenthesis; i. e., the thought of Romans 2:13. Not h...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ) Christ."[606] Origen Commentary on John Book I " It is possible to quote one of Paul's sayings in support of the contention that the whole of the New Testament is...
Romans 2:16 in G1722 day G2250 when G3753 God G2316 judge G2919 (G5692) (G5719) secrets G2927 men...
EVEN RESPECTABLE MEN, JUDGES, PHILOSOPHERS, RABBIS AND JEWS COME UNDER GOD'S JUDGMENT AS SINNERS (2:1-16). Having demonstrated the sinfulness and inexcusability of the majority of mankind, Paul now tu...
ALL WILL BE JUDGED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR OWN MORAL CODE (2:12-16). Paul now stresses that all men, as well as the Jews, have a moral code by which they live, and by which they will be judged, and tha...
‘In the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.' This verse continues the thought in Romans 2:13 where it is not the hearers of the Law who are to be seen...
1. _The Ground on which all men are Judged_ The Jews would at once assent to the truthfulness of the previous description; but while condemning the Gentiles, they would mentally excuse themselves. To...
Romans 2:16. IN THE DAY. The question of connection is the important one. Some Join directly with Romans 2:15;, referring the ‘day' to the day when the gospel is preached to the Gentiles, and the demo...
2. THE SINFULNESS OF THE JEWS, AS A PROOF OF THEIR NEED OF THE GOSPEL. This passage contains the second part of the proof of the universality of sin, and hence of the universal need of the gospel, whe...
ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL (κατα το ευαγγελιον μου). What Paul preaches (1 Corinthians 15:1) and which is the true gospel...
Romans 2:16 The Secrets of the Soul. I. We live in a strange secrecy, even hidden from our most loving and intimate friends. If any one of us were asked to relate his own life, he might relate two li...
Romans 2 The Practical Outcome of Judaism. I. The first thing on which St. Paul lays anxious stress in this passage is this: The judgment of God according to men's works is just, inevitable, and impa...
Romans 2:12 I. What does the Apostle mean when he says that certain persons shall perish without law? Is he aggravating their condemnation, and telling us that they shall have judgment without mercy,...
CONTENTS: The equal standing of Jew and Gentile before the justice of God. Morality apart from Christ useless as means of salvation. Jews knowing the law condemned by the law. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLU...
Romans 2:1. _Therefore thou art inexcusable, oh man,_ whether Roman or Jew, who judgest another, and doest the same thing thyself, though it may be in some other way. But as the judgment of God is acc...
AND SO. This verse connects with Romans 2:12-13. There will be no secrets on that Day! Those who have sinned (the whole human race) will be judged, whether under the Law or apart from the Law. See Rom...
_Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest._ MAN’S INEXCUSABLENESS I. Because-- 1. He has a knowledge of his duty. 2. He was created with ability to perform it. 3. He...
_In the day when God shall Judge the secrets of men._ THE FUTURE JUDGMENT I. The grand subject of inquiry. “The secrets of men.” A phrase to be understood in its utmost latitude, including not only m...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:16 MY GOSPEL. Not Paul’s alone, but the gospel that he preaches. ⇐...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:14 For Gentiles, God’s law is WRITTEN ON THEIR HEARTS. Their consciences show what is right or wrong in their behavior. Paul does not imply that the human conscience is always...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 2:1 Most interpreters say that Paul focuses on the sin of the Jews throughout this chapter. Another view is that the sin of the moral person (whether Jewish or Gentile) who judge...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 2:13. NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW.—Jewish writers held that no circumcised person goes to hell. St. Paul confutes all vain opinions. The literal meaning of δικαιοῦν is to make...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 2:1 (_b_) _Those who judge others, not excepting the Jews. _Here a new stage of the argument, in proof of the position propounded in Romans 1:18, begins, and is continued to the end...
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judges (Romans 2:1): You see, I read this list and I say, "Oh, yes, it is horrible. My, I just don't know what we are going to do, the w...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 4:5; 1 Timothy 1:11; 2 Corinthians 5:10;...
In the day — That is, who show this in the day. Everything will then be shown to be what it really is. In that day will appear the law written in their hearts as it often does in the present life. Whe...
As if the apostle had said, If any shall ask, when shall rewards and punishments be distributed to Jew or Gentile? The answer is, IN THAT DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE THE SECRETS OF MENS HEARTS BY JESUS C...