罗马书 4:9-10 CUNPSS

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 4:9-12

3. The priority of faith to circumcision 4:9-12The examples of Abraham and David, both Jews, led to the question Paul voiced in the next verse (Romans 4:9). The apostle pointed out that when God declared Abraham righteous the patriarch was uncircumcised. He was a virtual Gentile. Fourteen years later Abraham underwent circumcision (Genesis 17:24-26). His circumcision was a sign (label) of what he already possessed. This point would have encouraged Paul’s Jewish readers, who made so much of... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:1-25

Acceptance by Faith foreshadowed in the old DispensationIn Romans 3:21.; St. Paul set forth the great truth of acceptance by faith. A Jew might object that it was new, and therefore not true. In Romans 3:31; St. Paul answered that in the Law and in faith there is the same moral and religious ideal, which is more completely developed and more perfectly fulfilled by faith. Now he turns to the past, to show that acceptance by faith is not a new idea. It was faith for which Abraham was accepted,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:1-25

IV.(1-25) The subject of the chapter is an application of the foregoing to the special (and crucial) case of Abraham, with particular reference to two ideas that are continually recurring throughout the last chapter: (1) the supposed superiority of Jew to Gentile (and, à fortiori, of the great progenitor of the Jews); (2) the idea of boasting or glorying based upon this superiority. Following out this the Apostle shows how even Abraham’s case tells, not against, but for the doctrine of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:9

(9) Cometh this blessedness.—We shall, perhaps. best see the force of the particles “then” and “for” if we take the sentence out of its interrogative form. “It follows from the language of David that the blessedness thus predicated belongs to the uncircumcised as well as to the circumcised, for”—then comes the first premise of the argument by which this is proved. It was the act of faith which was the cause of Abraham’s justification. But both the act of faith and the justification consequent... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:9-12

(9-12) What is the bearing of this upon the relation between Jew and Gentile? Is the blessedness of the justified state reserved only for the former? Is it limited to those who are circumcised? On the contrary, the state of justification was attributed to Abraham himself before he was circumcised. Justification is the result of faith, not of circumcision. Circumcision is so far from superseding faith that it was only the sign or seal of it.This, then, is the great test. Those who have it may... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:3 In this word faith, as used by St. Paul, we reach a point round which the ceaseless stream of religious exposition and discussion has for ages circled.... It will at once appear that while it can properly be said of Abraham, for instance, that he was justified by faith, if we take faith in its plain sense of holding fast to an unseen power of goodness, yet it cannot without difficulty and recourse to a strained figure, be said of him, if we take faith in Paul's specific sense of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 4:1-12

Chapter 10ABRAHAM AND DAVIDRomans 4:1-12THE Jewish disputant is present still to the Apostle’s thought. It could not be otherwise in this argument. No question was more pressing on the Jewish mind than that of Acceptance; thus far, truly, the teaching and discipline of the Old Testament had not been in vain. And St. Paul had not only, in his Christian Apostleship, debated that problem countless times with Rabbinic combatants; he had been himself a Rabbi, and knew by experience alike the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 4:1-25

CHAPTER 4 1. The Witness of Abraham to Justification. (Romans 4:1-5 .) 2. As Confirmed also by David. (Romans 4:6-8 .) 3. Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant. (Romans 4:9-12 .) 4. Faith in Him Who Raiseth the Dead. (Romans 4:13-25 .) Romans 4:1-5 Two witnesses are summoned next in whose lives the truth of justification by faith is illustrated. The Jews boasted of Abraham as the father of their nation. “Abraham our father” is still the common phrase used by all orthodox Jews as it was in... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 4:9

4:9 {6} [Cometh] this {e} blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.(6) A new proposition: that this manner of justification belongs both to uncircumcised and also to the circumcised, as is declared in the person of Abraham.(e) This saying of David, in which he pronounces them as blessed. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 4:10

4:10 {7} How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.(7) He proves that it belongs to the uncircumcised (for there was no doubt of the circumcised) in this way: Abraham was justified in uncircumcision, therefore this justification belongs also to the uncircumcised. Nay, it does not belong to the circumcised, in respect of the circumcision, much less are the uncircumcised shut out from it because of their uncircumcision. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 4:9-12

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:9

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:9-12

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 4:1-25

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 4:1-12

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 4:1-25

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 4:9

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 4:10

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