Romans 3:21-30

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:25

Whom God hath set forth; i.e. God the Father hath proposed this Jesus, in the eternal counsel, and covenant of redemption, Ephesians 1:9; 1 Peter 1:20,1 Peter 1:21; or in the types and shadows of the old tabernacle; and hath now at last shown him openly to the world. To be a propitiation, or atonement, 1 John 2:2. He alludes to the mercy seat sprinkled with blood, which was typical of this great atonement; and from whence God showed himself so propitious and favourable to sinners, Leviticus... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:26

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness; he repeats the final cause of justification, viz. the making the after said declaration of the righteousness of God, in the time of the gospel, and dispensation and ministry thereof, 2 Corinthians 6:2, which is taken out of Isaiah 49:8. That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus; i.e. that no wrong might be done to the essential purity of his nature, or rectitude of his will; nor yet to his immediate justice, by... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:27

Where is boasting then? the apostle doth, as it were, insult over them: q.d. Where is now the former boasting cf the Jews, as if they were so much better than the Gentiles? Or what is become of the ground of boasting, that they, or either of them, might think they had in the law, or philosophy, or any moral performances? See Jeremiah 9:23,Jeremiah 9:24. It is excluded. By what law? of works? If it be inquired upon what account this boasting is excluded, we answer plainly, It cannot be by that... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:28

Here is the conclusion of the whole matter that he had been discoursing of, from Romans 1:17 to this very place. When he says, we conclude, he means, we have reasoned or argued well, as logicians do; or this is the full account that we have taken, and summed up, after the manner of arithmeticians. A man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law; a phrase equivalent to that which is so much spoken against, that we are justified by faith only; as if we should say, That God is to be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:29

By answering his own proposed questions, he plainly shows us, that the covenant of grace, by which God is God of his people, does not belong to the Jews only, that they only should have justification and bliss, but to the Gentiles also, according to the promise, Genesis 17:5; Genesis 22:18; Psalms 2:8; Isaiah 11:10,Isaiah 11:12, and many others; which promises are more especially to be accomplished, now the wall of partition is broken down, as Ephesians 2:13,Ephesians 2:14. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 3:30

That it may not be thought that God is variable in the action of justifying sinners, but that it might be known that he is one, i.e. unchangeable, he shows, that both the circumcised Jews and uncircumcised Gentiles are justified by the same God in Christ, and by the same way and manner, viz. by and through faith, with no more difference than there is betwixt these two phrases, (by faith and through faith), which cannot be distinguished the one from the other. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 3:21-26

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 3:22. By faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.—Faith apprehends and appropriates a personal mediator. The righteousness of God.—Our participation by faith in Christ as being the only righteousness that God approves, and thus is here called “the righteousness of God through faith.”Romans 3:23. The glory of God—viz., the divine approbation.Romans 3:24.—The English, or rather Latin, word “redemption” is not a perfect synonym of the term employed by the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 3:27-31

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 3:27.—Where is then the glorying? Such is the most literal and most correct rendering of the clause. Almost tantamount to the expression, Where is then their glorying?Romans 3:30-31.—The gospel establishes the law, because it is the most sublime manifestation of the holiness and strictness of God. Sin never appears more fearful than at Golgotha, where, on account of it, “God spared not His own Son” (Olshausen).MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 3:27-31The triumphant... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 3:21-26

Romans 3:21-26 Paul's Evangel. The history of God's relations with human sin breaks into two before Christ, and after Christ. The death of Christ, which marks the point of division, is at the same time the key to explain both. I. Antecedently to the death of Christ the sins of men were passed over in the forbearance of God. By offering His Son for the expiation of sin, God has cut off from men the temptation to misconstrue His earlier toleration of sins, His forbearance to punish them, or His... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 3:22

Romans 3:22 Paul here, in his grand way, triumphs and rises above all these small differences between man and man, more pure or less pure, Jew or Gentile, wise or foolish, and avers that in regard of the deepest and most important things "there is no difference." And so his gospel is a gospel for the world, because it deals with all men on the same level. I. There is no difference between men in the fact of sin. The gospel does not assert that there is no difference in the degrees of sin. At... read more

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