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Romans 3:1-31
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commentaryMatthew Henry on Romans 3:1-8The law could not save in or from sins, yet it gave the Jews advantages for obtaining salvation. Their stated ordinances, education in the knowledge of the true God and his service, and many favours shown to the childre…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. (a. d. 58.)THE ADVANTAGES OF THE JEWS; OBJECTIONS ANSWERED; THE DEPRAVITY OF JEWS AND GENTILES. (A. D. 58.) I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but w…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Romans 3:1-8Religious advantages, their use and abuse. If the Gentile and the Jew shall alike come under judgment according to their works, of what profit was the election of the Jew, and his endowment with spiritual privileges? Th…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Romans 3:1-8(2) Certain objections with regard to the Jews suggested and met. In this passage, before proceeding with his argument, the apostle meets certain objections that might be made to what has been so far said. Some difficul…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Romans 3:1-8The difficulties of Divine revelation, Jewish unbelief, and Divine justice. The apostle, in the two preceding chapters, has now shown that both Jews and Gentiles stand on the same platform as regards their need of a Sav…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Romans 3:1-8Jewish privileges and Divine judgment. From a consideration of the attitude of the Jewish world to God, the apostle proceeds in this section to state the privileges enjoyed by Jews, and to point out the corresponding da…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Romans 3:3For what if some ( τινες. The expression does net denote whether many or few; it only avoids assertion of universality of unbelief (cf. Romans 11:17; 1 Corinthians 10:7), though it is implied in the following verso that…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Romans 3:4God forbid (there is no better English phrase for expressing the indignant repudiation of μὴ γένοιτο): yea, let God be true ( γινέσθω ἀληθὴς; i.e. "let his truth be established;" "Fiat, in judicio," Bengel), but ev…Joseph S. Exell and contributors