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The Hypocrisy of Judgment
Commentators explain that Paul is directly confronting the hypocrisy of condemning others for sins we also commit. He challenges the reader, whom he imagines as a person quick to judge others' sin, to apply the same standard to themselves. The ability to recognize sin in others should logically lead to self-examination, not a false sense of superiority.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 2:3
18th Century
Theologian
And do you think, etc.? This is an appeal to their common sense, to their deep and instinctive conviction of what was right. If <…
AT Robertson
On Romans 2:3
And doest the same (κα ποιων αυτα). "And doest them occasionally."
That thou shalt escape (συ εκφευξη). Em…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 2:3
19th Century
Bishop
That you shall escape.—Emphatic. “Are you—because you are a Jew—to be the only exception to this rule?”
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 2:3
Paul changes his style here as he enters into dialogue with an imagined questioner who has absorbed what was said up to this point and who shows by…
John Calvin
On Romans 2:3
16th Century
Theologian
And do you think, O man, and so on. As rhetoricians teach us that we should not proceed to give strong reproof before the crime i…
John Gill
On Romans 2:3
17th Century
Pastor
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do
such things, and doest the same<…
Matthew Henry
On Romans 2:1–16
17th Century
Minister
The Jews thought themselves a holy people, entitled to their privileges by right, while they were unthankful, rebellious, and unrighteous. But all …