What then? are we better than they? the apostle here returns to the argument that he had been handling in the beginning of the chapter. He brings in the Jews propounding a question, Seeing it was confessed that the oracles of God were committed to them, then it followed, that they excelled the Gentiles, and stood upon better ground than they. No, in no wise; he doth not contradict himself as to what he had said of the Jews prerogative, Romans 3:2. They did indeed excel the Gentiles as to some external benefits, of which you have a larger account, Romans 9:4,5, but not upon the account of any evangelical righteousness, or their own supposed merit. We have before proved; viz. separately and apart, in the foregoing Chapter s; and the same is now to be asserted of both Jews and Gentiles, conjunctly and together; that notwithstanding the Jews boasted of their law, and the Gentiles of their philosophy, yet as to the evangelical faith and righteousness, they were both in the same case. Under sin; under the power of sin, but chiefly under the guilt of sin: see Romans 3:19.
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Romans 3:9
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proveda both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;