Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Romans 16:20
(4) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.
(4) We must fight with a certain hope of victory.
(4) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.
(4) We must fight with a certain hope of victory.
ROMANS 16:20 h` ca,rij tou/ kuri,ou h`mw/n VIhsou/ meqV u`mw/n {A} The shorter form of the benediction (î46 a B 1881) appears to be more primitive, for if Cristou/ (A C P Y 33 81 1739 _Byz_ all versi...
Verse 20. _THE GOD OF PEACE_] Who neither sends nor favours such disturbers of the tranquillity of his Church. _SHALL BRUISE SATAN_] Shall give you the dominion over the great _adversary_ of your sou...
AND THE GOD OF PEACE - The God who promotes peace; Romans 15:33. WILL BRUISE - The “language” here refers to the prediction in Genesis 3:15. It here means to “subdue, to gain the victory over.” It den...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. Greetings to Individuals. (Romans 16:1 .)_ 2. Warning and Comfort. (Romans 16:17 .) 3. The Final Salutations. (Romans 16:21 .) 4. The Conclusion. ...
A POSTSCRIPT OF ADMONITION. Romans 16:17. Supposing the paragraph in its right place (see Introd. § 4), it would seem that Paul, in glancing over his letter and thinking of the troubles of other churc...
Brothers, I urge you to keep your eye on those who, contrary to the teaching which they have received, cause dissensions and put in your way things which would trip you up. Steer clear of them. Such m...
A LETTER OF COMMENDATION (Romans 16:1-2)...
THE GOD, &C. See Romans 15:33. GOD. App-98. BRUISE. crush in pieces, or utterly. Greek. _suntribo_. Elsewhere, Matthew 12:20; Mark 5:4;...
_the God of peace_ See on Romans 15:33. Here the sacred Title seems to refer to the miseries of the strife ("divisions and offences") attendant on false doctrine. The God of Peace would be with those...
Ὁ ΔῈ ΘΕῸΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΕἸΡΉΝΗΣ. The GOD who gives us our peace which these men are breaking up; cf. Romans 15:33 and Romans 15:5 n. ΤῸΝ ΣΑΤΑΝΑ͂Ν. Cf. 2 Corinthians 2:5-11;...
Warning against mischief-makers and disturbers of the peace. The grace. 17–20. A brief but pointed warning against teachers, who under fair seeming introduce divisions and offences. The fundamental s...
ΣΥΝΤΡΊΨΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΤΡΊΒΩ (G4937) уничтожать, сокрушать; "бросит его вам под ноги, чтобы вы могли попрать его" (SH). ΈΝ ΤΆΧΕΙ (G5034) быстро....
DISCOURSE: 1928 VICTORY OVER SATAN Romans 16:20. _The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly_. IN order to get forward in our Christian course, we must unite a strenuous exertion of...
DISCOURSE: 1927 PRACTICAL WISDOM RECOMMENDED Romans 16:19. _I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly_...
SHALL BRUISE SATAN, &C.— _Satan_ is here put for _his instruments;—_the troublers of the church's peace. See 2 Corinthians 11:15. "God shall break the force and attempts of Satan upon your peace, by t...
_TEXT_ Romans 16:17-27. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. Romans 16:...
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. AND THE GOD OF PEACE SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. The apostle e...
__ Paul's Intended Journey 28 During Paul's first three ministries the nations were dependent on Israel, and received of their spiritual things. Hence they were indebted to them and sought to pay by...
16:20 bruise (d-7) As Luke 9:39 , 'crushing;' Revelation 2:27 ; 'broken in pieces.'...
GREETINGS AND WARNINGS 1-16. Commendation and greetings. Observe the number of women to whom the Apostle sends greeting. The fact is indicative of the change wrought in the position of women by the g...
BRUISE SATAN] by defeating the false teaching: cp. 2 Corinthians 11:12. 21-23. Greetings from St. Paul's companions....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 PERSONAL GREETINGS Sometimes a church leader may seem very strict when he *preaches. There are some very serious ma...
(17-20) Here the Epistle would naturally end, but an afterthought occurs to the Apostle, His experience of other churches, especially those at Corinth and in Galatia, suggests to him that he should wa...
THE GOD OF PEACE. — We can well understand how the Apostle, in the midst of “fightings without and fears within,” should look forward with joyous confidence to the time when both for him and his reade...
CHAPTER 32 A COMMENDATION; GREETINGS; A WARNING; A DOXOLOGY Romans 16:1 ONCE more, with a reverent license of thought, we may imagine ourselves to be watching in detail the scene in the house of Gai...
Warning against false teachers. This comes in very abruptly in the middle of the greetings, and as it stands has the character of an after-thought. The false teachers referred to are quite definitely...
ὁ δὲ θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης : used here with special reference to αἱ διχοστασίαι. _Cf._ 1 Corinthians 14:33. συντρίψει τὸν Σατανᾶν : divisions in the Church are Satan's work, and the suppression of them by...
RECEIVE HELPERS: SHUN HINDERERS Romans 16:17 Those who cause divisions on obscure points of doctrine are to be avoided, lest they lead us away from the fundamentals. We need to be wise in heavenly w...
In the salutation twenty-six persons are named. Two-thirds of these names are Greek, which, in all probability, are names of persons the apostle had actually known in his work in Asia. Phoebe was spec...
In the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the apostle, after a passage of salutations, Romans 16:19-21, stops all at once to address to the church, as in the form of a postscript, a solemn warning (Rom...
“ _Now, the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you._ ” From the visible enemy who threatens, the apostle's eye turns to thine visible w...
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. (18) For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, b...
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...
20.What follows, _God shall bruise Satan, etc._, is a promise to confirm them, rather than a prayer. He indeed exhorts them to fight manfully against Satan, and promises that they should shortly be vi...
Never having known the Roman Christians as an assembly, Paul sends many personal salutations. This was the link which subsisted. We see how touchingly his heart dwells upon all the details of service...
AND THE GOD OF PEACE,.... Romans 15:33; SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. Some read this by way of wish or prayer, "may the God of peace bruise"; so the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic...
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ _be_ with you. Amen. Ver. 20. _Shall bruise Satan_] Sincerity of a little grace shall be rewarded w...
_For_, &c. As if he had said, This exhortation I give you, to preserve you in the way in which hitherto you have walked, to the credit of the gospel: _for your_ ready _obedience_ and conformity to it,...
GOD OF PEACE; the divine author, promoter, and lover of peace. BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET; give you the victory over him and his adherents; a victory begun in this world, but consummated in the glo...
AND THE GOD OF PEACE SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU! AMEN. This warning comes into the postscript in the nature of an after-thought. Very li...
A warning against false teachers:...
COMMUNICATIONS, GREETINGS AND CLOSING This chapter has a character peculiar to itself; and being a fifth subdivision of the last division (Chapter s 12 to 16) of the book, we may expect in some sense...
There is thin line to walk A. Be wise to what is good. B. Be simple (not suspicious) concerning evil. 20 God will take care of Satan. See Genesis 3:15...
BRUISE: Or, tread...
AND THE GOD OF PEACE SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU. 'bruise' -4937. suntribo soon-tree'-bo; from 4862 and the base of 5147; to crush comp...
17-20 How earnest, how endearing are these exhortations! Whatever differs from the sound doctrine of the Scriptures, opens a door to divisions and offences. If truth be forsaken, unity and peace will...
_ And, &c.:_ q.d. And to encourage you to be watchful, I dare promise you shall be successful. THE GOD OF PEACE; so he is called, ROMANS 15:33. SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET: the word signifies t...
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. [Bruise is equivalent to "crush." (See Genesis 3:15; 2 Corinthians 11:12-15) If the Roman Christians hearkened to the apostle as to the...
Cyprian Epistle LXXVII And, as a sounding trumpet, you have stirred up God's soldiers, furnished with heavenly arms, to the close encounter; and fighting in the first rank, you have slain the devil w...
Romans 16:20 And G1161 God G2316 peace G1515 crush G4937 (G5692) Satan G4567 under G5259 your G5216 feet...
4). FINAL GREETINGS (16:1-27). We now come to the close of the letter. This final chapter divides up into three subsections: 1) Final greetings and exhortations (Romans 16:1). 2) Exhortation to bew...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS AND THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (16:17-20). That this warning comes at the end of the letter rather than in the main part suggests that such false teacher...
‘And the God of peace will bruise Satan under your feet shortly.' He is confident that ‘the God of peace', Who hates division among His people and seeks peace, will in this regard shortly bruise Satan...
III. CONCLUDING PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. This part of the Epistle may be divided into four sections, (1) Personal explanations, similar to those in chap. Romans 1:8-15 (chap. Romans 15:14-33). (2.) Gre...
3. _Closing Exhortation, with Greetings from Various Persons._ The warning of this section (Romans 16:17-20) indicates, not the presence of false teachers at Rome, but rather the danger of such person...
SHALL BRUISE (συντριψε). Future active of συντριβω, old verb, to rub together, to crush, to trample underfoot. Blessed promise of final victory over Satan by "the God of peace." "Shortly" (εν ταχε)...
CONTENTS: The outflow of Christian love. Closing salutations and benediction. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, many of the gospel helpers, Satan. CONCLUSION: Courtesy and Christianity go together. Ackn...
Romans 16:1. _I commend to you Phebe a servant of the church._ Διακονον, a _deaconess_ of the church _at Cenehrea,_ the eastern port of Corinth, where Paul shaved his head, that he might be purified o...
WILL SOON CRUSH SATAN. "False teachers may come and cause division, but God who is our source of peace will give you the victory over Satan!!!" THE GRACE. This benediction makes some think Romans 16:1...
_Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions._ A CAUTION AGAINST SCHISMATICS I. Their character described. They-- 1. Cause divisions. 2. Occasion offences. 3. Pervert doctrines....
_And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly._ SATAN BRUISED BY THE GOD OF PEACE There were two victories to be obtained over Satan. By the first, his head was to be bruised under...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 16:20 This is an allusion to Genesis 3:15. ⇐...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 16:1 Paul warmly greets those he knows in Rome. He is able to say something specific about almost every person greeted. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 16:20.—Here is St. Paul’s own superscription, written with his own hand in all his epistles. The Author of peace is the Giver of victory. συντρίψει, selected with special rega...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 16:1 K. _Commendation of Phoebe, and salutations to Christians at Rome._ ROMANS 16:1, ROMANS 16:2 I co
Chapter 16 is just personal greetings to many of those in Rome. We are going to go rather rapidly through it, just pointing out a few things. First of all, Paul, commends unto you Phoebe our sister,...
1 Corinthians 16:2; 1 John 3:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:28; 2 Corinthians 13:14;...
Shall bruise [σ υ ν τ ρ ι ψ ε ι]. See on Mark 5:4; Luke 9:39....
And the God of peace — The Author and Lover of it, giving a blessing to your discretion. Shall bruise Satan under your feet — Shall defeat all the artifices of that sower of tares, and unite you more...
These words may be considered either relatively, or absolutely; if relatively, or with relation to the context, then by Satan is to be understood seducers and false teachers, whom he had warned the R...