The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 3:27-30
Romans 3:27-30Where is boasting then?It is excluded. Boastfulness--Jewish and ChristianI. Boastfulness was a Jewish national characteristic of a peculiar species, for it took the form of religious conceit.1. They could not boast of being rich or strong; but when their fortunes were at the lowest they had one source of national pride left to them to buoy up their self-importance. In being the selected favourites of heaven, they found a consolation so flattering, that they looked down upon their... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 3:26
Romans 3:26To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness.The Cross a manifestation of the Divine righteousnessI. How. In two ways so closely united that either of them separated would lose its value.1. By the very fact of Christ’s sacrifice and bloody death. If Paul does not see in this punishment a quantitative equivalent of the treatment which every sinner had incurred, this is what clearly appears from such sayings as 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13. Now herein precisely consists the... read more