“ Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ”
Professing themselves to be wise - This was the common boast of the philosophers of antiquity. The very word by which they chose to be called, “philosophers,” means literally “lovers of wisdom.”...
(g) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (g) Or, thought themselves.
Mankind is in a ruinous plight: God's Anger, which is His righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race. Romans 1:18 a . The Divine wrath is being revealed from heaven in action...
Professing, &c . = saying that they were. Greek. phasko . See Acts 24:9 . became fools . Literally were fooled (i.e. by their perverted mind). Greek. moraino . Here, Matthew 5:13 . Luke 14...
22. While they were thinking, etc. It is commonly inferred from this passage, that Paul alludes here to those philosophers, who assumed to themselves in a peculiar manner the reputation o...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Professing themselves to be wise - This is most strikingly true of all the ancient philosophers, whether Greeks or Romans, as their works, which r...
Professing themselves to be wise— The original seems equivalent to that term of Xenophon,— φαοκοντες φιλοσοφοι,— professing to philosophise, which so evidently refers to the pride they took in th...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Professing themselves to be ([ faskontes ( G5335 ) einai ( G1511 )] - 'boasting that they were') wise, they became fools,
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...
They became fools. — They were made fools. It is not merely that they expose their real folly, but that folly is itself judicially inflicted by God as a punishment for the first step of declensio...
Chapter 4 NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD'S ANGER AND MAN'S SIN Romans 1:18-23 WE have as it were touched the heart of the Apostle as he weighs the prospect of his Roman visit, and feels, almost in o...
the only Power of Salvation Romans 1:13-23 We owe everything to our Lord, but since we can make Him no direct return, He has made men His residuary legatees. We are to think of others as having...
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...
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; (19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them...
Professing themselves to be wise ,.... The learned men among the Gentiles first called themselves σοφοι, "Sophi", wise men: and afterwards, to cover their wretched pride and vanity, φιλοσοφοι, "Phil...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Ver. 22. Professing themselves to be wise ] Aristotle, nature's chief secretary, writeth many things most absurdly concerning God; as, that he...
“Because that when they knew God The writings of Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Cicero, and other philosophers, which still remain, together with the quotations made by Just. Martyr and Clem. Alexandri...
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 Excellency of the Gospel. A. D. 58. 19 Because that which may be known of God is mani...
Some think, that all along this context the apostle hath reference to the Gnostics, a sort of heretics in the first age, (of which see Dr. Hammond in locum ), and that the meaning of the words is th...
Man's Rebellion Against God Comes To Its Inevitable Fruition (1:21-25). Paul now demonstrates how man's refusal to know God results in man's fall into gross sin. We have already been told about th...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 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 t...
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 worship...
Romans 1:1-2 . Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.) Paul had not seen...
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...
Professing themselves to be wise they became fools. The follies of the wise Futility of thought has reached the character of folly. What, in fact, is polytheism, except a sort of permanent hall...
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...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Corinthians 1:19-21 ; 1 Corinthians 3:18 ; 1 Corinthians 3:19 ; Isaiah 47:10 ; Jeremiah 10:14 ; Jeremiah 8:8 ; Jeremiah 8:9 ; Matthew 6:23 ; Proverbs 25:14 ; Proverbs 26:12 ; Romans 11:2...