Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Romans 1:22
(g) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
(g) Or, thought themselves.
(g) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
(g) Or, thought themselves.
Verse 22. _PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE_] This is most strikingly true of all the ancient philosophers, whether Greeks or Romans, as their works, which remain, sufficiently testify. The word φασκ...
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE - This was the common boast of the philosophers of antiquity. The very word by which they chose to be called, “philosophers,” means literally “lovers of wisdom.” That...
2. THE NEED OF SALVATION DEMONSTRATED. The Whole World Guilty and Lost. Chapter 1:18-3:20. CHAPTER 1:18-32. _ 1. Wrath Revealed from Heaven. 18._ 2. Gentile Knowledge of God. 19-20. 3. Turning f...
Mankind is in a ruinous plight: GOD'S ANGER, which is His righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race. ROMANS 1:18_ A_. The Divine wrath is being revealed from heaven in action against...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
For the wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven, directed against all impiousness and wickedness of men, who, in their wickedness, wilfully suppress the truth that is struggling in their hearts, fo...
PROFESSING, &C. = saying that they were. Greek. _phasko_. See Acts 24:9. BECAME FOOLS. Literally were fooled (i.e. by their perverted mind). Greek. _moraino_. Here, Matthew 5:13.Luke 14:34;...
_Professing themselves to be wise_, &c. A severe but just description of speculation, primitive or modern, which ignores Revelation where Revelation has spoken. St Paul does not mean that in such spec...
Romans 1:18-32. (18) This power and condition revealed in the Gospel meets the need of man; for in the actual state of man we can see that his life lies under GOD’s wrath. Man has by unrighteous actio...
ΦΆΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ The asyndeton shows that this is an explanation of the preceding sentence. Φ. of false allegations, Acts 24:9; Acts 25:19 and here only....
ΦΆΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part._ сопутств. от ΨΆΣΚΩ (G5335) заявлять, утверждать, ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. inf. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Inf._ в косвенной речи, ΈΜΩΡΆΝΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΜΩΡΑΊΝΩ (G3471...
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE— The original seems equivalent to that term of Xenophon,— φαοκοντες φιλοσοφοι,— _professing to philosophise,_ which so evidently refers to the pride they took in the t...
PART TWO JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN THE GOSPEL, Romans 1:16 to Romans 11:36 I. Proposition Stated. Romans 1:16-17 1. Not ashamed of the Gospel....
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE ([ faskontes (G5335 ) einai (G1511 )] - 'BOASTING THAT THEY WERE') WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS,...
1 Paul dates his apostleship from the commission he received at Antioch (Act_13:2) when he was severed from the rest to preach the evangel of God to the nations. Hitherto only Jews and proselytes like...
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE HEATHEN In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
Relying upon their own wisdom, they wandered further and further from true wisdom, falling into the contradiction of supposing that the eternal and immutable Essence of God could be represented by the...
THEY BECAME FOOLS. — They _were made fools._ It is not merely that they expose their real folly, but that folly is itself judicially inflicted by God as a punishment for the first step of declension f...
CHAPTER 4 NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD'S ANGER AND MAN'S SIN Romans 1:18 WE have as it were touched the heart of the Apostle as he weighs the prospect of his Roman visit, and feels, almost in one sensat...
THE ONLY POWER OF SALVATION Romans 1:13 We owe everything to our Lord, but since we can make Him no direct return, He has made men His residuary legatees. We are to think of others as having a claim...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
FOURTH PASSAGE (1:18-32). THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE GENTILES. According to Paul's usual style, the first verse contains summarily all the ideas developed in the following piece. The study of the verse...
“ _Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of corruptible man, and of birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things....
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; (19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;...
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...
22._While they were thinking, etc. _It is commonly inferred from this passage, that Paul alludes here to those philosophers, who assumed to themselves in a peculiar manner the reputation of wisdom; an...
There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE,.... The learned men among the Gentiles first called themselves σοφοι, "Sophi", wise men: and afterwards, to cover their wretched pride and vanity, φιλοσοφοι, "Philoso...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Ver. 22. _Professing themselves to be wise_] Aristotle, nature's chief secretary, writeth many things most absurdly concerning God; as, that he is...
_“Because that when they knew God_ The writings of Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Cicero, and other philosophers, which still remain, together with the quotations made by Just. Martyr and Clem. Alexandrin...
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE; pretending to great wisdom. BECAME FOOLS; exhibited the greatest folly....
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS,...
The result of deliberate folly:...
The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel...
ROMANS 1:18-25 1. Is man responsible for his own unrighteousness and misunderstanding about God? a. What is the one visible practice that man does when he misunderstands the nature of God? i. Idola...
__ Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 'They boast of their wisdom, but they have made fools of themselves' (NEB) (1 Corinthians 1:21) "Haven't you heard some people tal...
18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he h...
Some think, that all along this context the apostle hath reference to the Gnostics, a sort of heretics in the first age, (of which see Dr. Hammond _in locum_), and that the meaning of the words is thi...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "Professing themselves wise, they became fools."[330] Origen Against Celsus Book III calling, in a general way, wise all who appear to have made advances in kno...
Romans 1:22 Professing G5335 (G5723) be G1511 (G5750) wise G4680 fools G3471 (G5681)...
MAN'S REBELLION AGAINST GOD COMES TO ITS INEVITABLE FRUITION (1:21-25). Paul now demonstrates how man's refusal to know God results in man's fall into gross sin. We have already been told about the un...
‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,' Consequently they began to associate the divine with the world around and above them and set up images of earthly things, over which they could k...
Romans 1:22. PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE. While, not because they professed themselves to be wise. This has reference, not to heathen philosophers, but to the conceit of wisdom which lay back of...
DOCTRINAL PART. 1. UNIVERSAL NEED. Having asserted that the gospel is God's power unto salvation to every one that believeth, whether Jew or Greek, the Apostle proceeds to show that all men are sinne...
1. THE SINFULNESS OF THE GENTILES. This fearful yet truthful description of the moral decay of the Gentile world is not introduced abruptly. In Romans 1:17 the Apostle had declared that righteousness...
PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE (φασκοντες εινα σοφο). Σοφο is predicate nominative with εινα in indirect discourse agreeing with φασκοντες (old verb, from φημ, to say, rare in N.T.) in case and n...
Romans 1:18 The Natural History of Paganism. I. St. Paul's first proposition is, that from the first the heathen knew enough of God from His works to render them without excuse for not worshipping H...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of a lost world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: God has...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,_ in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your s...
BUT THEY ARE FOOLS. Those who repudiate God, are fools. Intelligence does not keep anyone from making a fool of himself. The Greeks and Romans were proud of their wisdom, but their worship of images s...
_Professing themselves to be wise they became fools._ THE FOLLIES OF THE WISE Futility of thought has reached the character of folly. What, in fact, is polytheism, except a sort of permanent hallucin...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:22 Even brilliant people who do not honor God miss the whole purpose of life and are therefore FOOLS (see Proverbs 1:7)....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:22.—Here begins a dark picture of heathenism, but fully verified from the writings of what has been called the most brilliant age of the most intellectual nations of the worl...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 1:1 I. INTRODUCTORY. ROMANS 1:1 A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's mind is...
This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens his epistle to the Romans declaring: Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God...
1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Isaiah 47:10;...
The next sin which the apostle charges upon the Gentiles, is the sin of idolatry. Such as PROFESSED THEMSELVES TO BE THE MOST WISE and knowing men among them, as their celebrated philosophers, poets,...