Romans 3:2

2. Much every way A supernatural history, a succession of prophecies, a Messiah.

Chiefly Literally, first; yet so comprehending all that he mentions no second. But he gives a fuller enumeration in Romans 9:4-5.

Oracles of God There were plenty of heathen oracles, giving dubious responses from false gods, and, perhaps, daemons. To the Jews were given those pure oracles of the true Jehovah which constitute the Old Testament. Our apostle did not belong to that sect of rationalists, ancient or modern, which is anxious to separate the Old Testament from the New, denying the divine authority of the former. He based the New on the foundations of the Old.