Romans 15:1-6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

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Romans 15:1-Joshua : . Harmony through Self-renouncement.

Romans 15:1 f. “ Strength carries with it the duty of bearing others’ weaknesses, not of pleasing oneself” ( cf. 1 Corinthians 10:33). “ The strong” are men of robust faith, in contrast with “ the weak” of Romans 14:1. The Christian is to “ please his neighbour” not by humouring his failings, but by “ aiming at his good, with a view to building him up in faith and character ( cf. Romans 14:19).

Romans 15:3 . So “ the Christ” bore Himself, according to Psalms 69 (quoted above in Romans 11:9; cf. Matthew 27:27 ff., etc.). The Psalmist in suffering reproach for God imaged our Lord’ s self-negation.

Romans 15:4 reflects, in view of the above reference, on the value of Scripture, which trains us to “ patience” and “ hope.” Like the story of Abraham’ s faith ( Romans 4:23), that of the Psalmist’ s grief “ was written for our instruction.”

Romans 15:5 f. “ May the God who thus gives endurance and encouragement, grant to you a harmonious mind (an echo of Romans 12:16) according with that of Christ Jesus” ( cf. Romans 15:3, Php_2:2-5 ). Your harmony will yield “ a concert of praise to God, uttered as if with one mouth.”

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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