Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 2:5-12
CRITICAL NOTESRomans 2:5.—Thou art hoping to escape the judgment of God, but instead art heaping up treasure of wrath. It is not God who treasures up, but thy destruction is from thyself.Romans 2:6.—Account will be taken of the aim which has governed the moral action.Romans 2:7. To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, [to such] eternal life.—Future glory is contrasted with present shame.Romans 2:8.—ἐριθείαν denotes the spirit which seeks the... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 2:11
This seems to be borrowed from 2 Chronicles 19:7, and Deuteronomy 10:17. You have the same again, Acts 10:34; see Job 34:19; Galatians 2:6; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 6:9; 1 Peter 1:17. Obj. God loved Jacob, and hated Esau, when they were yet unborn, and had done neither good nor evil. Answer. This was not properly a respecting of persons, because God did not this as a judge, but as an elector: so the apostle states it, Romans 9:11-13. God is gracious to whom he will be gracious, and may do what... read more