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Do you know this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
And do you think, etc.? This is an appeal to their common sense, to their deep and instinctive conviction of what was right. If <…
And doest the same (κα ποιων αυτα). "And doest them occasionally."
That thou shalt escape (συ εκφευξη). Em…
19th Century
Anglican
That you shall escape.—Emphatic. “Are you—because you are a Jew—to be the only exception to this rule?”
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same<…
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The Jews thought themselves a holy people, entitled to their privileges by right, while they were unthankful, rebellious, and unrighteous. But all …
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that the Gentiles did not become justified from the knowledge of the truth they had, the Apostle now shows that neither wer…
