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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 3:29-31

Romans 3:29-31. 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 perverse people of the Jews, leaving all the rest of mankind in an eternally desperate condition? That would by no means agree with the idea we have of the divine goodness, for his tender mercies are over all his works. He is the God of the Gentiles also And therefore hath... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 3:21-31

3:21-5:21 THE WAY OF SALVATION (JUSTIFICATION)Now that he has established that all humankind is sinful and under God’s condemnation, Paul moves on to explain the salvation that God has made available through Jesus Christ. The following outline introduces a number of ideas and words that Paul uses in this section.God’s loveIt is true that God loves sinners and wants to forgive them (2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 4:16; 1 John 4:16), but genuine love also acts justly. It does not ignore wrongdoing. Suppose,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 3:30

Seeing = Since. Greek. epeiper. Only here. it is one God = God is One, i.e. for both Jew and Gentile. Which shall = Who will. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:30

Romans 3:30. 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 prediction, Zec 14:9 that the Lord shall be One, and his name One,—fulfilled by the publication of the Gospel: but the allusion appears far-fetched. The Apostle, having asserted that God is the God of the Gentiles, as well as of the Jews, goes on to observe that there is but one... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 3:30

30. it is one God who shall justify—"has unchangeably fixed that He shall justify." the circumcision by—"of" faith, and the uncircumcision through faith—probably this is but a varied statement of the same truth for greater emphasis (see :-); though BENGEL thinks that the justification of the Jews, as the born heirs of the promise, may be here purposely said to be "of faith," while that of the Gentiles, previously "strangers to the covenants of promise," may be said to be "through faith," as... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 3:27-31

B. The defense of justification by faith alone 3:27-31Having shown what justification is, Paul went on to reaffirm that it is available only by faith. He proceeded to expound the great theological thesis of Romans 3:21-26. Romans 3:27-31 state this theme, and chapter 4 elucidates and elaborates it. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 3:29-30

Paul continued to appeal to his Jewish audience in these verses as in the former two. If justification is by the Law, God must be the God of the Jews only since God only gave the Law to the Jews. Paul’s point was that there are not two ways of salvation, one for the Jews by works and the other for Gentiles by faith. This is only logical, he reasoned, since there is only one God who is the God of all humankind. Paul probably used two separate prepositions in Romans 3:30 ("by," ek, and "through,"... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 3:1-31

The New Way of Acceptance with GodIn 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 gospel, which he had, no doubt, heard urged in synagogues (Romans 3:1-8). Returning to the main subject, he clinches his indictment of the Jew out of the Scriptures, and concludes that all the world is ’under the judgment of God’ (Romans 3:9-20).Having thus shown that man is sinful and lost, he now... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 3:27-31

(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 fulfilment of the first law as it stood, but upon faith. Faith is the true medium of justification. And faith belongs as much to Gentile as to Jew. For faith is the appointed means by which all mankind will be justified; and they will all be justified before the same tribunal, whether they be... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 3:30

(30) 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 only be upon the assumption either that there are more gods than one by whom they will be justified, or that they will be justified by some different law, in some different way. But neither of these is the case. Therefore it follows that there is no distinction.Shall justify.—The future... read more

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