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What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
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Paul begins with a powerful rhetorical question. Commentators explain that by asking what Abraham 'found according to the flesh,' Paul is challenging the idea that righteousness comes from heritage, personal effort, or religious rituals like circumcision. This question sets the stage for the entire chapter's argument.
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Romans
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18th Century
Presbyterian
ROMANS Chapter 4
The main object of this chapter is to show that the doctrine of justification by faith, which the apostle was defending, wa…
What then shall we say? (τ ουν ερουμεν?). Paul is fond of this rhetorical question (4:1; 6:1; 7:7; 8:31; 9:14,30).
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19th Century
Anglican
To come back to the question of Romans 3:1, repeated in Romans 3:9, in what did the superiority of Abraham, the great representative of the Jewish …
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Baptist
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof…
Paul now asks what Abraham had “discovered” about getting into right relation to God. In calling Abraham “our forefather,” he is not addressing Jew…
16th Century
Protestant
What then, etc. This is a confirmation by example. It is a very strong one, since all things are alike with regard to the subject…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What shall we say then The apostle having proved that there is no justification by the works of the law; to make thi…
To meet the views of the Jews, the apostle first refers to the example of Abraham, in whom the Jews gloried as their most renowned forefather. Howe…
13th Century
Catholic
After dismissing the glory the Jews took in the law, through which they considered themselves superior to the Gentiles, the Apostle now d…
