Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 2:7
‘To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life,’ For God will in that day render to those who by patient endurance in well-doing seek for glory (from God) and honour (in God’s eyes) and incorruption, eternal life. In view of the reference to incorruption, ‘glory’ here may have in mind heavenly splendour. But his picture here is of the ideal man whose whole heart is set on well-doing in the expectation of glory and honour from God, and of final... read more
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 2:6-11
God Will Be Impartial In Judgment (2:6-11). As mentioned above this new section is in the form of a chiasmus. The chiasmus was found regularly in the works of Moses, and in other books of the Old Testament, forming an a b c c b a pattern or equivalent, with the repetition of a phrase sometimes coming in the second half (‘of the Jew first and also of the Greek’ - ‘to the Jew first and also to the Greek’). The chiasmus here is as follows: a ‘Who will render to every man according to his... read more