What does Romans 1:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And declareda to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:"
Verse Romans 1:4. _AND DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD_] Acts 13:33, where this subject is considered at large. The word ορισθεντος, which we render _declared_, comes from οριζω, to _bound, define, dete...
AND DECLARED - In the margin, “determined.” Τοῦ ὁρισθέντος Tou horisthentos. The ancient Syriac has, “And he was known to be the Son of God by might and by the Holy Spirit, who rose from the house...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. DOCTRINAL. THE SALVATION OF GOD. Chapter 1-8. CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Apostle and the Gospel of God. (Romans 1:1 .)_ 2. The Greeting. (Romans 1:7 .) 3. The Apostle's Prayer...
THE ADDRESS is elaborate, for Paul is introducing himself to a strange community; and stately, as befits Christ's ambassador approaching the imperial city. Romans 1:1 f., Romans 1:5 f. He is an apost...
This is a letter from Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart to serve the good news of God. This good news God promised long ago, through his prophets, in the sacred writing...
DECLARED. marked out. Greek. _horizo._ See Acts 2:23. Compare Psalms 2:7. SON OF GOD. App-98. WITH POWER. in (Greek. _en)_ power (Greek. _dunamis._ App-172.); i.e. powerfully. Compare Philippians 3:...
_declared_ Better, DEFINED, MARKED OUT BY SURE SIGNS. Same word as Hebrews 4:7 ("He _limiteth_a certain day"). His Resurrection shewed Him to be _none other than_the Son. The same Greek word is used i...
A. Romans 1:1-17. INTRODUCTION. ADDRESS 1–7. OCCASION 8–15. SUBJECT 16–17. 1–7. Address. The writer’s (_a_) name and state, (_b_) office, (_c_) commission defined by a statement of (i) the Person fro...
ΟΡΙΣΘΈΝΤΟΣ _aor. pass. part. adj. от_ όpi ΖΩ (G3724) намечать границу, назначать, избирать, выбирать (Dunn; _см._ Lewis Johnson, Jr., "The Jesus that Paul Preached" Bib Sac 128 [1971]: 129f; L.C.Allen...
WITH POWER— See on Romans 1:16. He who will read in the original what St. Paul says, Ephesians 1:19 concerning the power which God exerted in raisingChrist from the dead, will hardly avoid thinking th...
PART ONE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS, Romans 1:1-15 SALUTATION, Romans 1:1-7 _Text_ Romans 1:1-7. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be anapostle, separated unto the gospel of God, Romans 1:2 w...
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: AND DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD, [ horisthentos (G3724)] - 'marked off,' 'poi...
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...
1:4 Spirit (h-11) In many cases it is impossible to put a small or a large S rightly to the word Spirit, as the presence and power of the Holy Spirit characterizes the state, and that and the state a...
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...
(1-7) In writing to the Romans, a Church to which he was personally unknown, and which might be supposed, so far as it was Jewish, to be prejudiced against him, the Apostle delivers with somewhat more...
CHAPTER 2 THE WRITER AND HIS READERS Romans 1:1 PAUL, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. So the man opens his Lord's message with his own name. We may, if we please, leave it and pass on, for to the let...
The usual salutation of the Apostle is expanded, as is natural in writing to persons whom he has not seen, into a description both of himself and of his Gospel. Both, so to speak, need a fuller introd...
THE APOSTLE'S BURNING DESIRE Romans 1:1 Upon the threshold of his greatest Epistle, Paul describes himself as a bond-servant. Such humility as his qualified him to be the medium of God's wondrous re...
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...
And (g) declared [to be] the Son of God with (h) power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: (g) Shown and made manifest. (h) The divine and mighty power is set ag...
_Who was predestined [2] the Son of God. The learned bishop of Meaux, Bossuet, in his second Pastoral Instruction, in which he condemned the French translation of Mons. Simon, (p. 127.) takes notice,...
FIRST PASSAGE (1:1-7). THE ADDRESS. The form of address usual among the ancients contained three terms: “N. to N. _greeting._ ” Comp. Acts 23:26: “Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Fel...
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (2) (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures), (3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our...
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...
4._Declared _(19) _the Son of God_, _etc._: or, if you prefer, determined (definitus); as though he had said, that the power, by which he was raised from the dead, was something like a decree by which...
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...
AND DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD,.... Not made as he is said to be before, when his incarnation is spoken of; nor did he begin to be the Son of God, when he was made of the seed of David, but he, the...
And declared _to be_ the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: Ver. 4. _Declared to be, &c._] Gr. ορισθεντος, defined; for definitions explain...
_Concerning his Son Jesus Christ_ The gospel is good news from God, concerning the coming of his Son to save the world. The Son of God, therefore, is the subject of the gospel, as well as its author:...
DECLARED-WITH POWER; powerfully, conclusively manifested to be THE SON OF GOD-ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS; as to his divine nature. The words, "according to the Spirit of holiness," stand in c...
SALUTATION OF THE LETTER....
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 1:1-17 1. How did Paul gain the ear of the Roman church? a. How did Paul establish a common tie with the Jews at Rome? i. Prophets ii. Quote from Scripture iii. Jesus was the seed of David...
DECLARED: _ Gr._ determined...
WHO WAS DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD WITH POWER, ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS, BY THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD; EVEN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, 'Declared..with power' -(Acts 2:36). The Resurre...
1-7 The doctrine of which the apostle Paul wrote, set forth the fulfilment of the promises by the prophets. It spoke of the Son of God, even Jesus the Saviour, the promised Messiah, who came from Dav...
Not made the Son of God, as he was said before to be _made of the seed of David; _ but DECLARED, or demonstrated, TO BE THE SON OF GOD. WITH POWER: this refers either to the word declared, and then th...
who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; even Jesus Christ our Lord...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI but others come to Him who "was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness; "[166]...
Romans 1:4 declared G3724 (G5685) Son G5207 God G2316 with G1722 power G1411 according G2596 Spirit G4151 holiness G42 by G1537 resurrection G386 dead G3498 the Son - Romans 1:3; John 2:18-21; Acts 2...
THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD (1:2-6). What that ‘Good News of God' was is now made clear, as is the fact that it had been promised beforetime through God's prophets in the Holy Scriptures. In other words Pau...
_ADDRESS AND GREETING_ The Apostle conforms to the usage of his time, beginning his letters with his own name, followed by a designation of the persons addressed, to which a greeting is added. But he...
WHO WAS DECLARED (του ορισθεντος). Articular participle (first aorist passive) of οριζω for which verb see on Luke 22:22; Acts 2:23. He was the Son of God in his preincarnate state (2 Corinthians 8:...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,_ Paul has many titles, and he delights to mention them in writing to these Christians at Rome....
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...
FROM PAUL, A SERVANT OF CHRIST JESUS. The custom in the first century was for the writer to introduce himself at the beginning of a letter. CHOSEN AND CALLED BY GOD. Paul makes this strong statement o...
_Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ._ AUTHENTICATION AND SALUTATION I. The apostle. 1. Paul was not the name by which he was always known, but was assumed shortly after the commencement of his mission...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:1 The Gospel as the Revelation of God’s Righteousness. This first section includes Paul’s opening greeting (vv. Romans 1:1), thanksgiving (vv. Romans 1:8), and statement of th...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:3. TO THE FLESH.—σάρξ denotes a living being in distinction from the dead, which is κρέας. It denotes also body as distinguished from mind (Stuart). OUR LORD.—Supreme Ruler...
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 Peter 1:11; 2 Corinthians 13:4; 2 Peter 1:21; Acts 13:33; Acts 17:31; Acts 2:24; Acts 2:32; Acts 3:15; Acts 4:10; Acts 5:30;...
Declared [ο ρ ι σ θ ε ν τ ο ς]. Rev., in margin, determined. The same verb as in the compound separated in ver. 1 Bengel says that it expresses more than "separated," since one of a number is separate...
THE GOSPEL OF GOD Romans 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a SERVANT...
But powerfully declared to be the Son of God, according to the Spirit of Holiness — That is, according to his divine nature. By the resurrection from the dead — For this is both the fountain and the o...