Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Volume 1
Overview
Frédéric Louis Godet brings thoughtful Christian scholarship to bear on the book of Romans. In his Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Godet’s exposition is as exegetical as it is theological. He not only critically examines the original text, but also discusses the key doctrines in relation to both the entire book of Romans and the rest of Scripture. He approaches Romans from the perspective of a theologian, and with the eye of a textual critic.
Top Highlights
“For four thousand years the spectacle presented by mankind to the whole moral universe (comp. 1 Cor. 4:9) was, so to speak, a continual scandal. With the exception of some great examples of judgments, divine righteousness seemed to be asleep; one might even have asked if it existed. Men sinned here below, and yet they lived. They sinned on, and yet reached in safety a hoary old age!… Where were the wages of sin? It was this relative impunity which rendered a solemn manifestation of righteousness necessary.” (Page 261)
“There is only one answer to the question raised, unless we admit a flagrant contradiction in the apostle’s teaching: that justification by faith alone applies to the time of entrance into salvation through the free pardon of sin, but not to the time of judgment. When God of free grace receives the sinner at the time of his conversion, He asks nothing of him except faith; but from that moment the believer enters on a wholly new responsibility; God demands from him, as the recipient of grace, the fruits of grace.” (Page 196)
“At the instigation of an already existing power of revolt, man drew from the depths of his liberty a decision whereby he adhered to the inclination rather than to the divine will, and thus created in his whole race, still identified with his person, the permanent proclivity to prefer inclination to obligation. As all the race would have perished with him if he had perished, it was all seized in him with the spirit of revolt to which in that hour he had adhered.” (Page 346)
“He thus combined in his person the three principal social spheres of the age, Jewish legalism, Greek culture, and Roman citizenship. He was, as it were, a living point of contact between the three.” (Page 6)
- Title: Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Volume 1
- Authors: Alexander. Cusin, Frédéric Louis Godet
- Series: Godet Commentary Collection
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 1881
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Romans › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:GODETCOMRO
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:24:22Z