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Romans 2:21

The Pulpit Commentary on Romans 2:21

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? The οὗν here does not involve an anacoluthon after the reading εἴ δὲ in , though St. Paul would not have much cared if it had been so.

It serves only to sum up the lengthened protasis, and introduce the apodosis: "If … dost thou then," etc.? In what follows it is not, of course, implied that all Jews who relied on the Law were, in fact, thieves, adulterers, etc.

, but only that the Jews as a nation were no more exempt from such sins than others; and it may be that those specified were not selected by the apostle at random, but as being such as the Jews had a peculiar evil notoriety for at that time.

Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

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