Verse 11
11. Meaning of the voice Literally, the force of the speech.
A barbarian The Greeks were proud of their own race and of their own language, and the talk of a foreigner was a mere bar bar, and so they called the foreigner a barbaros, or babbler. Hence Greek and barbarian, in Romans 1:14, is an antithesis for all the world, like Jew and Gentile.
The antithesis was first founded, as here, on language; but barbarian has finally come to signify uncivilized.
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