Romans 1:8-25,Matthew 6:19-21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:8-14

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 1:8. Your faith is spoken of, etc.—Rome frequented by strangers, and so the faith of the Church easily made known. κόσμω, the beautiful order of the visible world.Romans 1:10. Making request, if by any means, etc.—Grotius happily renders: “Si forte Dei voluntas felicitatem mihi indulgeat ad nos remindi.” Making request is δεόμενος—a special word for prayer, and implies a sense of need. Lightfoot says “precatio” points to the frame of mind and “rogatio” to the act of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:15-17

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 1:16. The power of God unto salvation.—In and by the gospel God shows and exerts moral power. The best equivalent for “unto” is “for.” It signifies direction. The Greek word used for mental and carnal direction. Gospel, from the old Gothic guth, good, and spillon, to announce. Either “good spell” or “God’s spell.”Romans 1:17. The righteousness of God.—The justification which God bestows, or that of which He is the author. The state of pardon and acceptance as the result of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:18-21

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 1:18. The wrath of God.—ὀργὴ Θεοῦ, God’s displeasure. The phrase is plainly anthropopathic. May express a particular instance of displeasure.Romans 1:19. That which may be known of God.—That concerning God which is knowable. St. Basil called the natural world a school of the knowledge of God. God is knowable though still unknowable.Romans 1:20. The invisible things of Him from the creation.—Cyril said that the eternity of God is proved from the corruptible nature of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:22-32

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 1:22-23.—Here begins a dark picture of heathenism, but fully verified from the writings of what has been called the most brilliant age of the most intellectual nations of the world. St. Paul traces man’s downward progress. Evolution, but in the wrong direction. According to the Jewish rabbis, one sin made to follow as the punishment of another. τὴν δόξαν, spoken of God, refers to the divine majesty and glory.Romans 1:25. Who is blessed for ever.—These doxologies common in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:14

Romans 1:14 I. The principle underlying these words is that personal possession of any peculiar privilege is of the nature of a trust, and involves the obligation that the privilege shall be used by the individual, not for his own pleasure or profit merely, but for the welfare of those who are not similarly blessed. What I have that another has not is to be used by me, not for my own aggrandisement, but for the good of that other as well as for my own. The greatness of exceptional endowment, of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:16

Romans 1:16 I. In Paul's day the world was grown very weary of words which had in them no power at all, or, if power, at least not power to save. Weary of words which promised life, but had no power to give it; brain-spun speculations about God and man which made nothing clear, which had no influence whatever over the bad passions of the individual, which brought no hope to the poor or the slave; in these Greek theories there was no gospel of power unto salvation. Weary too of words which had... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:16-17

Romans 1:16-17 Consider: I. The condition to which man has reduced himself by transgression, which makes "the power of God unto salvation" the pressing and constant need of his soul. Power is of God, because power is life, and life is of God. If power be gone, God only can renew it. Man is manifestly godlike in the serene composure of his being; he knows the struggles to live up to it, yet falls back into the gloom of the nether abyss. It is a sight of unspeakable piteousness. It would be an... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:17

Romans 1:17 (R.V.) I. The most characteristic and weighty expression in this verse is of course God's righteousness, the revelation of which makes the gospel to be a saving power. The Pauline use of the word righteousness is this: righteousness is the condition of any man's being justified, vindicated in law or acquitted of blame by his righteous Judge. And the characteristic of the gospel its joy and glory lies here, that it has revealed how that condition of our justification has been... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

Romans 1:18-32 The Natural History of Paganism. I. St. Paul's first proposition is, that from the first the heathen knew enough of God from His works to render them without excuse for not worshipping Him. II. Secondly, the Apostle declares that the heathen have culpably repressed and hindered from its just influence the truth which they did know respecting God. He traces polytheistic and idolatrous worship to its root. (1) Its first origin he finds in a refusal to walk honestly by such light as... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:25

Romans 1:25 Nature Worship. Consider whether our religion or our irreligion is so free from the idolatrous element as we generally suppose, and if not what are the appearances which bear the most resemblance to the false religion of the ancient world. I. Though the impious among ourselves no longer pray to stocks and stones, or beasts and birds, or moon and stars, there is still a strong taint of idolatry perceptible in our religion, science, literature, business nay, our very language. Yes, I... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:8-14

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:15-17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:18-21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:22-32

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:14

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:16

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:16-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:25

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