“ (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) ”
Which he had promised afore - Which gospel, or which doctrines, he had before announced. By the prophets - The word “prophets” here is used to include those who wrote as well as those who spa...
The Address is elaborate, for Paul is introducing himself to a strange community; and stately, as befits Christ's ambassador approaching the imperial city. Romans 1:1 f., Romans 1:5 f. He is...
had . Omit. promised afore . Greek. proepangello. Only here: epangello occurs fifteen times; always rendered "promise", save 1 Timothy 2:10 ; 1 Timothy 6:21 (professing). Prophets . App-1...
2. Which he had before promised, etc. — As the suspicion of being new subtracts much from the authority of a doctrine, he confirms the faith of the gospel by antiquity; as though he said,...
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Which he had promised afore - Both in the law and in the prophets God showed his purpose to introduce into the world a more perfe...
Which he had promised afore, &c.— The Apostle, it is likely, asserts this to insinuate a good idea of the Gospel into the mind of the Jews at first setting out, and to put them upon inquiring;...
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures. Though the Roman church was Gentile by nation (see th...
The Power of the Gospel and the need of the World. The Guilt of the Heathen In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is...
(1-7) In writing to the Romans, a Church to which he was personally unknown, and which might be supposed, so far as it was Jewish, to be prejudiced against him, the Apostle delivers with somewhat mor...
Chapter 2 THE WRITER AND HIS READERS Romans 1:1-7 PAUL, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. So the man opens his Lord's message with his own name. We may, if we please, leave it and pass on, for to...
the Apostle's Burning Desire Romans 1:1-12 Upon the threshold of his greatest Epistle, Paul describes himself as a bond-servant. Such humility as his qualified him to be the medium of God's won...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (2) (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures), (3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our...
Which he had promised afore ,.... The Gospel is here further commended from the antiquity it: it was no novel doctrine, an upstart notion, but what God had conceived in his own breast from eternity....
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Ver. 2. Promised ] Foreshowed and foreshadowed in the types of the ceremonial law (which was their gospel, it was Christ...
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ Though once a bitter persecutor; called to be an apostle And made an apostle by that calling. The Greek, κλητος αποστολος, is literally, a called apostle , or an...
The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospe...
The Apostle's Commission. A. D. 58. 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an ap...
Which he had promised; the meaning is not, that the history of the gospel was promised by the prophets, but that Jesus Christ, with all his benefits, (which is the direct subject of the gospel hist...
COMMENTARY. This Letter was written by Paul to the church in Rome, and its whole stress is on ‘the Good News of God'. It commences with a description of that ‘Good News (Gospel) of God', which is...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 1:2 The gospel long promised.—A scheme long in preparation, the carrying out of which seems long delayed, may be expected to be of great value and impor...
Romans 1:1 . Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, Paul has many titles, and he delights to mention them in writing to these Christians at R...
Romans 1:1 . Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in you...
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. Authentication and salutation I. The apostle. 1. Paul was not the name by which he was always known, but was assumed shortly after the commencement of his mi...
EXPOSITION Romans 1:1-45 I. INTRODUCTORY . Romans 1:1-45 A. Salutation with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of wh...
Salutation of the Letter.
Acts 10:43 ; Acts 26:6 ; Luke 24:26 ; Luke 24:27 ; Romans 3:2 ; Romans 3:21 ; Titus 1:2
The Gospel of God Romans 1:1-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a...
Which he promised before — Of old time, frequently, solemnly. And the promise and accomplishment confirm each other. Deuteronomy 18:18 ; Isaiah 9:6-7 ; Isaiah 53:1 ; Isaiah 61:1 ; Jeremiah 23:...