AND ANNOTATIONS UPON ALL THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, BRIEFLY EXPLAINING ALL THE DIFFICULT PLACES THEREOF. BY H. HAMMOND, D. D. Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις Θεῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη· ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκία. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS. CHAP. I. AUL, a servant PAUL, of Jesus Christ, apostle, God, Son Jesus Christ our called to be an a one that hath received this special singular mercy separated from him to be an apostle, authorized and set apart unto the gospel of (Acts xiii. 2.) to that office of preaching the gospel, 2 (Which he had (which God had promised by the prophets that it should now be revealed to the Gentiles as well as promised afore by his prophets in the Jews, to all the world by the ministry of the apostles,) holy scriptures,) 3, 4. Concerning the Messias, the Son of God, by 3 Concerning his him sent into the world, (who according to the flesh Lord, which was was born a Jew, of the stock of David, but according 2 made of the seed to the spirit of holiness, or in respect of that other of David according nature in him, called his eternal Spirit, Heb. ix. 14, to the flesh; (far above all that is flesh and blood,) that, I say, be the Son of God which shone in him most perfectly after, and through with power, accord- and by his resurrection from the dead, 2 Cor. xiii. 4, ing to the spirit of was set at God's right hand, the Son of God in power, holiness, by the to whom accordingly, as to a Son, all power was given [a]resurrection from by the Father,) even Jesus Christ our Lord: 4 And declared to the dead: 5 By whom we have 5. Who hath afforded me the favour or honour to received grace and be sent as apostle of the Gentiles to all the nations of 1 called, or, special apostle, кλntds à¤ógtoλos : see note [c] Matt. xx. 2 born, γενομένου. 3 demonstrated, or, defined the Son of God in power, TOû dpiσlévtos vioû ©eoû èv dvváμes. HAMMOND, VOL. II. B |