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Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
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Commentators explain that Paul is anticipating a logical objection from his Jewish readers. After arguing in the previous chapter that outward signs like circumcision are meaningless without inner obedience, the natural question is, "What's the advantage of being a Jew?" Paul poses this question to set up his next point.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Romans Chapter 3
What advantage, etc. The design of the first part of this chapter is to answer some of the objections that might b…
What advantage then hath the Jew? (τ ουν το περισσον του Ιουδαιου?). Literally, "What then is the overplus of the Jew?" What does …
19th Century
Anglican
Continuing the subject, but with a long digression in Romans 3:3 and following. The Apostle asks, What is the real value of these apparent advantag…
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Baptist
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the o…
Paul continues with the subject of the guilt of the Jew, but now with an emphasis on the element of unbelief and on a sophisticated claim of immuni…
16th Century
Protestant
Although Paul has clearly proved that bare circumcision brought nothing to the Jews, yet since he could not deny that there was some difference bet…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What advantage then has the Jew ? If he is not properly a Jew, who is born of Jewish parents, and brought up in the custo…
The law could not save them in their sins, nor from their sins, yet it gave the Jews advantages for obtaining salvation. Their prescribed ordinance…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After showing that Judaism—which involved receiving the law and circumcision—is not sufficient for salvation without observing the law, h…
