Romans 4:25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:1-25

IV.(1-25) The subject of the chapter is an application of the foregoing to the special (and crucial) case of Abraham, with particular reference to two ideas that are continually recurring throughout the last chapter: (1) the supposed superiority of Jew to Gentile (and, à fortiori, of the great progenitor of the Jews); (2) the idea of boasting or glorying based upon this superiority. Following out this the Apostle shows how even Abraham’s case tells, not against, but for the doctrine of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:23-25

(23-25) Application of the foregoing. The history of Abraham is a type of the dispensation of grace; his faith, the imputation of righteousness to him, and his reward, each severally a type of the same things in the Christian. Even in details the resemblance holds. Abraham put faith in a God “who quickeneth the dead,” and in like manner the Christian must put faith in God as the Author of a scheme of salvation attested by the resurrection of Christ. The death of Christ was the ground of that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 4:25

(25) Was delivered—i.e., to death, as in Isaiah 53:12 (LXX. version); Matthew 17:22; et al.For our offences.—Because of our offences—i.e., in order that He might atone for them.For our justification.—Because of our justification—i.e., that justification might take effect in us.The death of Christ is the proper cause of justification, or means of atonement, according to St. Paul; the resurrection of Christ is only the mediate or secondary cause of it. The atoning efficacy lay in His death, but... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:3 In this word faith, as used by St. Paul, we reach a point round which the ceaseless stream of religious exposition and discussion has for ages circled.... It will at once appear that while it can properly be said of Abraham, for instance, that he was justified by faith, if we take faith in its plain sense of holding fast to an unseen power of goodness, yet it cannot without difficulty and recourse to a strained figure, be said of him, if we take faith in Paul's specific sense of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 4:13-25

Chapter 11ABRAHAM (2)Romans 4:13-25AGAIN we approach the name of Abraham, Friend of God, Father of the Faithful. We have seen him justified by faith, personally accepted because turning altogether to the sovereign Promiser. We see him now in some of the glorious issues of that acceptance; "Heir of the world," "Father of many nations." And here too all is of grace, all comes through faith. Not works, not merit, not ancestral and ritual privilege, secured to Abraham the mighty Promise; it was his... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 4:1-25

CHAPTER 4 1. The Witness of Abraham to Justification. (Romans 4:1-5 .) 2. As Confirmed also by David. (Romans 4:6-8 .) 3. Circumcision the Sign of the Covenant. (Romans 4:9-12 .) 4. Faith in Him Who Raiseth the Dead. (Romans 4:13-25 .) Romans 4:1-5 Two witnesses are summoned next in whose lives the truth of justification by faith is illustrated. The Jews boasted of Abraham as the father of their nation. “Abraham our father” is still the common phrase used by all orthodox Jews as it was in... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 4:25

4:25 Who was delivered for our {t} offences, and was raised again for our justification.(t) To pay the ransom for our sins. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 4:1-25

Abraham and David Justified by Faith Now there is deepest patience and grace shown on the part of God through Paul, His instrument in writing this epistle: for it is blessed to see that He gives no mere peremptory statement of truth. There is rather a perfectly ordered reasoning from a basis of known and admitted facts - a reasoning that cannot but appeal to spiritual wisdom. Every objecting argument, whether of Jews or Gentiles, is fully met. Romans 4:1-25 then takes up two test cases to... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 4:1-25

THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS If a righteousness were not obtainable by the words of the law as we saw in our last lesson, then a Jew especially might well ask in surprise how it were obtainable. To which the apostle replies, that “now apart from the law a righteousness of God is manifested,” (Romans 3:21 RV), i.e., a righteousness which may become man’s without the keeping of the law. This righteousness he describes as: “Witnessed by the law and the prophets,” in other words, taught in the Old... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 4:1-25

The Promise to Abraham Romans 4:0 Was there ever a heart like the heart of the Apostle Paul? When he argues he argues with his heart. There is no more superficial criticism passed upon the Apostle Paul than that he was a dry reasoner. His logic is bedewed with tears; he wants to show how vast, how measureless is the love of God. Yet there have been minds under such hallucination as to wish to make the Apostle Paul the prince of sectarians, the very sovereign of bigots and exclusionists. If... read more

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