Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
Romans 3:30
Circumcision-uncircumcision; Jews and Gentiles.
By faith; by a righteousness which is of faith, not of law.
Through faith; by means of their faith.
Circumcision-uncircumcision; Jews and Gentiles.
By faith; by a righteousness which is of faith, not of law.
Through faith; by means of their faith.
Verse 30. _SEEING_ IT IS _ONE GOD_] επιπερ εις ο θεος. This has been rendered, _Seeing God is one_. It however makes little difference in the sense: the apostle's meaning most evidently is, it is one...
IS HE THE GOD ... - The Jews supposed that he was the God of their nation only, that they only were to be admitted to his favor. In these verses Paul showed that as all had alike sinned, Jews and Gent...
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...
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...
GOD'S FIDELITY AND MAN'S INFIDELITY (Romans 3:1-8)...
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...
SEEING. Since. Greek. _epeiper._ Only here. IT IS ONE GOD. God is One, i.e. for both Jew and Gentile. WHICH SHALL. Who will....
_seeing it is one God_ This ver. may be lit. rendered thus: IF INDEED GOD IS ONE, WHO WILL (AND HE WILL) JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISION IN CONSEQUENCE OF FAITH, AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION BY MEANS OF ITS FAITH....
ΕἼΠΕΡ, if as is the fact; cf. Romans 8:9; Romans 8:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Corinthians 5:3 (v.l.); diff....
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...
ΕΪΠΕΡ (G1512) если, если целиком. Относится к предмету, который предположительно существует (Τ), ΔΙΚΑΙΏΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ (G1344) оправдывать (_см._ Romans 3:24). ΆΚΡΟΒΥΣΤΊΑ необрезание...
SEEING IT IS ONE GOD, &C.— _So that it is one God,_ the same eternal and unchangeable Jehovah, _who will justify,_ &c. Mr. Locke would render it, _seeing God is one;_ and suppose it an allusion to the...
_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...
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. SEEING [IT IS] ONE GOD WHICH SHALL - or, 'one is the God who shall' JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISIO...
_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...
CIRCUMCISION] i.e. Jews. UNCIRCUMCISION] i.e. Gentiles. BY.. THROUGH] The Judaistic Christians seem to have held that they were justified on account of ('by') circumcision and obedience to the Law, if...
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...
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...
(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...
SEEING IT IS... — With a slight change of reading, _if at least; if, as we are sure is the case._ The argument is strictly logical. If there is to be any distinction between Jew and Gentile, this can...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify (g) the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. (g) The circumcised....
God who justifieth circumcision, and also the uncircumcised by faith; that is, by the faith and religion of the new law, or by a faith working by charity, and joined with good words proceeding from fa...
The Alex. read εἴπερ : _if truly._ This reading might suffice if the apostle were merely repeating the principle of the unity of God as the basis of the preceding assertion: “ _if indeed_ God is one.”...
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...
“ _Or is he the God of the Jews only?is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, who shall bring out the justification of the circumcised from faith, and who shall...
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...
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 UNITY OF THE GODHEAD_ ‘If so be that God is one.’ Romans 3:30 (R.V.) In these words the Revised Version has restored to us a text, an argument, and even a principle which had been concealed. S...
30._Who shall justify, _(127) _etc. _In saying that some are justified by faith, and some through faith, he seems to have indulged himself in varying his language, while he expresses the same thing, a...
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...
SEEING IT IS ONE GOD,.... God is one in nature and essence, though there are three persons in the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; whence it appears, that he that is the God of the Jews, is also...
Seeing _it is_ one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Ver. 30. _And uncircumcision_] All by one way, lest he should seem not to be one, but _alius e...
_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...
SEEING IT IS ONE GOD, WHICH SHALL JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISION BY FAITH AND UNCIRCUMCISION THROUGH FAITH....
The great conclusion of the apostle:...
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. The righteousness of God revealed:...
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...
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...
IF SO BE THAT GOD IS ONE, AND HE SHALL JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISION BY FAITH, AND THE UNCIRCUMCISION THROUGH FAITH. Both need justification! And the conditions for salvation for both are the same! (Mark...
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...
That it may not be thought that God is variable in the action of justifying sinners, but that it might be known that he is one, i.e. unchangeable, he shows, that both the circumcised Jews and uncircum...
if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. [Therefore, as the conclusion of the whole argument, we reckon that every man, be he Jew...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III to God that human nature (hominem) which had departed from God; and therefore men were taught to worship God after a new fashion, but not another god, because in tr...
Romans 3:30 since G1897 one G1520 God G2316 who G3739 justify G1344 (G5692) circumcised G4061 by G1537 faith...
‘If so be that God is one, and he will reckon the circumcision as in the right by faith (out of faith), and the uncircumcision through faith.' And the grounds for his confident answer is that God is o...
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...
Romans 3:30. SEEING THAT GOD IS ONE, HE WHO SHALL, etc. (A slight change of reading gives the sentence a lively argumentative form; the word used being that translated ‘if so be that' in chap. Romans...
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...
IF SO BE THAT GOD IS ONE (ειπερ εις ο θεος). Correct text rather than επειπερ. It means "if on the whole." "By a species of rhetorical politeness it is used of that about which there is no doubt" (T...
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...
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._ The Jews of old had a great...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GOD IS ONE. Paul points _to_ Zechariah 14:8-9 to prove that in the _new age_ of Good News, God will gather all peoples together, and all will be put right with him through the _one rule_ of faith (whi...
_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...
_Where is boasting then?_ It is excluded. BOASTFULNESS--JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN I. Boastfulness was a Jewish national characteristic of a peculiar species, for it took the form of religious conceit. 1...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 3:29 Since GOD is the Lord of all, whether JEWS or GENTILES, there can be only one way of justification—by FAITH....
_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...
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...
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...
Colossians 2:10; Colossians 2:11; Galatians 2:14; Galatians 3:20;...
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...
Seeing it is one God who — Shows mercy to both, and by the very same means....