Romans 2:19
What meaning of the romans 2:19 in the Bible?
What does Romans 2:19 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,"
What does Romans 2:19 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,"
Verse 19. _AND ART CONFIDENT_, c.] In consequence of all these religious advantages, ye believe that ye are able to teach others, and to be _guides_ and _lights_ to the _bewildered, darkened Gentiles,...
AND ART CONFIDENT - This expression denotes the full assurance of the Jew that he was superior in knowledge to all other people. It is a remarkable fact that the Jews put the fullest confidence in 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 .) Romans 2:1 But in the heathen wor...
Now Paul accosts the Jew, reproving his PRIDE OF LAW, MADE VOID BY DISLOYALTY. Romans 2:17. His pretensions (But if thou bearest the name of Jew, etc.), provoke the questions of Romans 2:21 : the com...
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRIVILEGE (Romans 2:1-11)...
ART CONFIDENT. Greek. _peitho._ App-150. LIGHT. Greek. _phos_. App-130....
_thou thyself_ Strongly emphatic. The person supposed is not only sure of the privileges of Jews in general, but of _his own_spiritual competency, by virtue simply of his position and light. Surely t...
17–3:20. The Gospel is needed by Jews, who have also failed through ignoring the one condition of righteousness....
ΠΈΠΟΙΘΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΊΘΩ (G3982) убеждать, быть убежденным, доверять. ΟΔΗΓΌΣ (G3595) путеводитель, проводник (RWP)....
DISCOURSE: 1826 INCONSISTENT CHRISTIANS REMONSTRATED WITH Romans 2:17. _Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the thi...
GUIDE OF THE BLIND, &C.— _Blind,—in darkness,—ignorant,—babes,_— were appellations which the Jews gave to the Gentiles; signifying how much inferior to themselves they thought them in knowledge. The w...
_TEXT_ Romans 2:17-24. But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, Romans 2:18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instru...
_AND ART CONFIDENT THAT THOU THYSELF ART A GUIDE OF THE BLIND, A LIGHT OF THEM WHICH ARE IN DARKNESS,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
_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...
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 *...
A GUIDE OF THE BLIND. — Comp. Matthew 15:14, “They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind,” _et seq. _...
CHAPTER 7 JEWISH RESPONSIBILITY AND GUILT Romans 2:17 "THE Jew, first, and also the Greek"; this has been the burthen of the Apostle's thought thus far upon the whole. He has had the Jew for some w...
f. πέποιθάς τε κ. τ. λ. The τε indicates that this confidence is the immediate and natural result of what precedes: it is not right, in view of all the N.T. examples, to say that πέποιθας suggests an...
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...
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...
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, (18) And knowest will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; (19) And a...
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...
19._And believest thyself, etc. _More is still granted to them; as though they had not only what was sufficient for themselves, but also that by which they could enrich others. He grants, indeed, that...
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...
AND ART CONFIDENT THAT THOU THYSELF,.... Being vainly puffed up in, their fleshly minds, they were strongly persuaded that they were very fit persons to be A GUIDE TO THE BLIND: all men are by nature...
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, Ver. 19. _Of the blind_] The Chinese say that all other nations see but with one eye, they with tw...
_Behold_ Here he applies the matter he had discussed in the preceding verses more closely to the Jews, and proves, that, notwithstanding all their pretences and privileges, they were transgressors of...
The guilt of the Jews:...
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 jud...
Romans 2:17-29 1. What is the difference between an inward Jew and an outward Jew? a. What was an outward Jew? i. Circumcised ii. Good self-image 1. Name Jew means a lot to him 2. Rested in the...
AND ART CONFIDENT THAT THOU THYSELF ART. GUIDE OF THE BLIND,. LIGHT OF THEM THAT ARE IN DARKNESS,...
17-24 The apostle directs his discourse to the Jews, and shows of what sins they were guilty, notwithstanding their profession and vain pretensions. A believing, humble, thankful glorying in God, is t...
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and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,...
Romans 2:19 and G5037 confident G3982 (G5754) yourself G4572 are G1511 (G5750) guide G3595 blind G5185 light G5457 in G1722 darkness G4655 art confident - Proverbs 26:12; Isaiah 5:21, Isaiah 56:10;...
THE JEW AND THE LAW OF GOD. ‘But if you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory (boast) in God, and know his will, and approve the things which are excellent, being instructed out of t...
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...
A GUIDE OF THE BLIND (οδηγον τυφλων). Accusative οδηγον in predicate with εινα to agree with σεαυτον, accusative of general reference with infinitive εινα in indirect discourse after πεποιθας. Late...
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 imp...
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. CONCL...
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...
A GUIDE FOR THE BLIND. This was their claim. God intended the Jews to be teachers of the Truth. But they failed to do it. Their actions did not match their claims....
_Behold, thou art called a Jew._ THE JEWS ALSO WITHOUT EXCUSE Hitherto the apostle, in seeking to shut up the Jew unto the faith of Christ, has contented himself with an enunciation of the equitable...
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 2:18.—κατηχούμενος, being orally instructed. Romans 2:21.—This verse may be illustrated out of the Jewish writings, for they say, “He who teacheth others what he doth not him...
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 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 8:2; Acts 26:18; Isaiah 49:10; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 49:9; Isaiah 5:21;...
Blind, in darkness, ignorant, babes — These were the titles which the Jews generally gave the gentiles....