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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Romans Chapter 2 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Romans Chapter 2 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance--that is, is designed and adapted to do so.
Romans Chapter 2 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. treasurest up unto thyself wrath against--rather "in."
the day of wrath--that is wrath to come on thee in the day of wrath. What an awful idea is here expressed--that the sinner himself is amassing, like hoarded treasure, an ever accumulating stock of divine wrath, to burst upon him in "the day of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God!" And this is said not of the reckless, but of those who boasted of their purity of faith and life.
Romans Chapter 2 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7-10. To them who, &c.--The substance of these verses is that the final judgment will turn upon character alone.
by patient continuance in well-doing, &c.--Compare
Lu 8:15:
"That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience"; denoting the enduring and progressive character of the new life.
Romans Chapter 2 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, &c.--referring to such keen and determined resistance to the Gospel as he himself had too painfully witnessed on the part of his own countrymen. (See
Ac 13:44-46; 17:5, 13; 18:6, 12;
and compare
1Th 2:15, 16).
indignation and wrath--in the bosom of a sin-avenging God.
Romans Chapter 2 9 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
9. Tribulation and anguish--the effect of these in the sinner himself.
Romans Chapter 2 10 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
10. to the Jew first--first in perdition if unfaithful; but if obedient to the truth, first in salvation
(Ro 2:10).
Romans Chapter 2 12 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
12. For as many as have sinned--not "as many as have sinned at all," but, "as many as are found in sin" at the judgment of the great day (as the whole context shows).
without law--that is, without the advantage of a positive Revelation.
shall also perish without law--exempt from the charge of rejecting or disregarding it.
and as many as have sinned in the law--within the pale of a positive, written Revelation.
shall be judged by the law--tried and condemned by the higher standard of that written Revelation.
Ro 2:1-29.
THE JEW UNDER LIKE CONDEMNATION WITH THE GENTILE.
From those without, the apostle now turns to those within the pale of revealed religion, the self-righteous Jews, who looked down upon the uncovenanted heathen as beyond the pale of God's mercies, within which they deemed themselves secure, however inconsistent their life may be. Alas! what multitudes wrap themselves up in like fatal confidence, who occupy the corresponding position in the Christian Church!