collapse all  

Text -- Romans 4:7 (NET)

Strongs On/Off
Context
4:7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Parallel   Cross Reference (TSK)   ITL  

Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Dictionary Themes and Topics: Works | Sin | Salvation | Rome | Romans, Epistle to the | Quotations and Allusions | QUOTATIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT | PSALMS, BOOK OF | Justification | Inclusiveness | GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE | Faith | Bigotry | Abraham | more
Table of Contents

Word/Phrase Notes
Robertson , Vincent , Wesley , JFB , Clarke , Defender , TSK

Word/Phrase Notes
Barnes , Poole , Haydock , Gill

Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes

Verse Range Notes
TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Barclay , Constable , College , McGarvey

collapse all
Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Rom 4:7 - -- Blessed ( makarioi ). See note on Mat 5:3.

Blessed ( makarioi ).

See note on Mat 5:3.

Robertson: Rom 4:7 - -- Are forgiven ( aphethēsan ). First aorist passive indicative of aphiēmi , without augment (apheithēsan , regular form). Paul quotes Psa 32:1. a...

Are forgiven ( aphethēsan ).

First aorist passive indicative of aphiēmi , without augment (apheithēsan , regular form). Paul quotes Psa 32:1. and as from David. Paul thus confirms his interpretation of Gen 15:6.

Robertson: Rom 4:7 - -- Iniquities ( anomiai ). Violations of law whereas hamartiai (sins) include all kinds.

Iniquities ( anomiai ).

Violations of law whereas hamartiai (sins) include all kinds.

Robertson: Rom 4:7 - -- Are covered ( epekaluphthēsan ). First aorist passive of epikaluptō , old verb, to cover over (upon, epi ) as a shroud. Only here in N.T.

Are covered ( epekaluphthēsan ).

First aorist passive of epikaluptō , old verb, to cover over (upon, epi ) as a shroud. Only here in N.T.

Vincent: Rom 4:7 - -- Iniquities ( ἀνομίαι ) Lit., lawlessnesses .

Iniquities ( ἀνομίαι )

Lit., lawlessnesses .

Vincent: Rom 4:7 - -- Are forgiven ( ἀφέθησαν ) Lit., were forgiven . See on Mat 6:12; see on Jam 5:15; see on 1Jo 1:9. Also see on remission , Luk 3:3...

Are forgiven ( ἀφέθησαν )

Lit., were forgiven . See on Mat 6:12; see on Jam 5:15; see on 1Jo 1:9. Also see on remission , Luk 3:3.

Wesley: Rom 4:7 - -- With the veil of divine mercy. If there be indeed such a thing as happiness on earth, it is the portion of that man whose iniquities are forgiven, and...

With the veil of divine mercy. If there be indeed such a thing as happiness on earth, it is the portion of that man whose iniquities are forgiven, and who enjoys the manifestation of that pardon. Well may he endure all the afflictions of life with cheerfulness, and look upon death with comfort. O let us not contend against it, but earnestly pray that this happiness may be ours! Psa 32:1-2.

JFB: Rom 4:6-8 - -- "speaketh," "pronounceth."

"speaketh," "pronounceth."

JFB: Rom 4:6-8 - -- Whom, though void of all good works, He, nevertheless, regards and treats as righteous.

Whom, though void of all good works, He, nevertheless, regards and treats as righteous.

JFB: Rom 4:7-8 - -- (Psa 32:1-2). David here sings in express terms only of "transgression forgiven, sin covered, iniquity not imputed"; but as the negative blessing nec...

(Psa 32:1-2). David here sings in express terms only of "transgression forgiven, sin covered, iniquity not imputed"; but as the negative blessing necessarily includes the positive, the passage is strictly in point.

Clarke: Rom 4:7 - -- Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven - That is, the man is truly happy whose iniquities αι ανομιαι, whose transgressions of the ...

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven - That is, the man is truly happy whose iniquities αι ανομιαι, whose transgressions of the law are forgiven; for by these he was exposed to the most grievous punishment. Whose sins, αι αμαρτιαι, his innumerable deviations from the strict rule of truth and righteousness, are covered - entirely removed out of sight, and thrown into oblivion. See the meaning of the word sin in the note on Gen 13:13 (note).

Defender: Rom 4:7 - -- This quote is from Psa 32:1, Psa 32:2. This was David's psalm of thanksgiving after his repentance over his notorious sin of adultery and homicide. Pa...

This quote is from Psa 32:1, Psa 32:2. This was David's psalm of thanksgiving after his repentance over his notorious sin of adultery and homicide. Paul thus notes that justification by faith was true both before and after Moses - before, in Abraham, Israel's great patriarch, and after, in David, Israel's greatest king."

TSK: Rom 4:7 - -- Psa 32:1, Psa 32:2, Psa 51:8, Psa 51:9, Psa 85:2, Psa 130:3, Psa 130:4; Isa 40:1, Isa 40:2; Jer 33:8, Jer 33:9; Mic 7:18-20; Mat 9:2; Luk 7:47-50

collapse all
Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Rom 4:7 - -- Blessed - Happy are they: they are highly favored; see the note at Mat 5:3. Whose sins are covered - Are concealed; or hidden from the vi...

Blessed - Happy are they: they are highly favored; see the note at Mat 5:3.

Whose sins are covered - Are concealed; or hidden from the view. On which God will no more look, and which he will no more remember. "By these words,"says Calvin (in loco), "we are taught that justification with Paul is nothing else but pardon of sin."The word "cover"here has no reference to the atonement, but is expressive of hiding, or concealing that is, of forgiving sin.

Poole: Rom 4:7 - -- This testimony is taken out of Psa 32:1 , and it is well enough accommodated to the occasion, for those two, to remit sin, and to impute righteousne...

This testimony is taken out of Psa 32:1 , and it is well enough accommodated to the occasion, for those two, to remit sin, and to impute righteousness, are inseparable. The one is put here figuratively for the other. They mistake, who take occasion from hence to make justification to consist only in remission of sin: the text will not bear it. The apostle’ s design is, not hereby to declare the full nature of justification, which he had done before; but only to prove the freedom of it from any respect to works, in the instance of this principal and essential part of it. Remission of sin and the imputation of righteousness differ, as the cause and the effect. Remission of sin presupposeth imputation of righteousness; and he that hath his sins remitted, hath Christ’ s righteousness first imputed, that so they may be remitted and forgiven to sinners.

Haydock: Rom 4:7 - -- Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. That is, blessed are those who, by doing penance, have obtained pardon a...

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. That is, blessed are those who, by doing penance, have obtained pardon and remission of their sins, and also are covered; that is, newly clothed with the habit of grace, and vested with the stole of charity. (Challoner) ---

When it is said that the sins of man are covered, we must not imagine that they still remain, but on account of the goodness of God will not be punished, as the Lutherans contend; for the justice of God could not suffer this: but by it we must understand that they are entirely blotted out, and neither exist, nor are considered any longer by God. Still, we must not conclude that man is blessed, as soon as sin is remitted; since the same psalmist, in another place, ascribes happiness to man when he walks in the law of the Lord, and when he keeps judgment and does justice. (Psalms i; cv; and cviii.) And our Saviour says, If you know these things, blessed shall you be if you do them. (St. John xiii.) (Estius) ---

Moreover, if sins were never blotted out, but only covered, why did the royal prophet pray to the Almighty, saying: blot out all mine iniquities; and in different parts of the 50th psalm and psalm cviii, speaking of the egregious sinner, he says: let the sin of his mother not be blotted out; which would mean nothing at all, if sins were never blotted out? (Haydock)

Gill: Rom 4:7 - -- Saying, blessed are they,.... These words are cited from Psa 32:1, and contain the proof of the happiness of justified persons. In this citation the s...

Saying, blessed are they,.... These words are cited from Psa 32:1, and contain the proof of the happiness of justified persons. In this citation the singular number is changed into the plural, to take in all sorts of men, Jews and Gentiles, and very agreeably to the sense of the original; for the word אשרי may be rendered "blessed are they", or, "O the blessednesses"; that is, of everyone of them,

whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered: such whom God justifies by imputing the righteousness of his Son to them, he removes their iniquities from them, which is meant by their being "forgiven", and that "as far as the east is from the west", Psa 103:12; he casts them behind his back, Isa 38:17, and into the depths of the sea, Mic 7:19, so that they shall never be found more: such whom he clothes with the robe of righteousness, and garments of salvation, Isa 61:10, "their sins are covered"; from the eye of divine justice, and shall never be seen more, or be brought against them to their condemnation, and therefore must be happy persons. The e Jews tell us, that

"on the day of atonement Satan comes to accuse Israel, and he particularizes their sins, and the holy blessed God he particularizes their good works, and takes a pair of balances, and puts their sins against their good works, and weighs the one against the other; and when the two scales of the balances are alike, Satan goes to bring in other sins to overweigh; what does the holy blessed God do? he takes the sins out of the scale, and hides them שלו תחת פורפירי, "under his purple garment"; and when Satan comes and finds no iniquity there, as it is said "the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none", Jer 50:20; and when Satan sees this, he says before him, Lord of the world, "thou hast taken away the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin", Psa 85:2. Selah.''

The purple garment they explain by מלבוש של רחמים שלו, "his garment of mercy"; which is true of the mercy of God covering the sins of his people, through the purple blood of his Son; which is the purple covering of Christ, Son 3:10, under which the saints go safe to glory, and by which blood their crimson and scarlet sins are blotted out, so as never to be seen more.

expand all
Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rom 4:7 Or “Happy.”

expand all
Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Rom 4:1-25 - --1 Abraham's faith was imputed to him for righteousness;10 before he was circumcised.13 By faith only he and his seed received the promise.16 Abraham i...

MHCC: Rom 4:1-12 - --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. However...

Matthew Henry: Rom 4:1-8 - -- Here the apostle proves that Abraham was justified not by works, but by faith. Those that of all men contended most vigorously for a share in righte...

Barclay: Rom 4:1-8 - --Paul moves on to speak of Abraham for three reasons. (i) The Jews regarded Abraham as the great founder of the race and the pattern of all that a man ...

Constable: Rom 3:21--6:1 - --III. THE IMPUTATION OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS 3:21--5:21 In beginning the next section of his argument Paul returne...

Constable: Rom 4:1-25 - --C. The proof of justification by faith from the law ch. 4 Paul's readers could have understood faith as ...

Constable: Rom 4:6-8 - --2. David's testimony to justification by faith 4:6-8 Paul cited another eminent man in Jewish hi...

College: Rom 4:1-25 - --II. 4:1-25 - ABRAHAM: PARADIGM OF GRACE This next section of Romans (the entire fourth chapter) is a presentation of Abraham as a paradigm or pattern...

McGarvey: Rom 4:7 - --saying [Psa 32:1-2], Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered .

expand all
Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans Spring of a.d. 57 By Way of Introduction Integrity of the Epistle The genuineness of the Epistle is so generally adm...

JFB: Romans (Book Introduction) THE GENUINENESS of the Epistle to the Romans has never been questioned. It has the unbroken testimony of all antiquity, up to CLEMENT OF ROME, the apo...

JFB: Romans (Outline) INTRODUCTION. (Rom. 1:1-17) THE JEW UNDER LIKE CONDEMNATION WITH THE GENTILE. (Rom. 2:1-29) JEWISH OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. (Rom 3:1-8) THAT THE JEW IS S...

TSK: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans is " a writing," says Dr. Macknight, " which, for sublimity and truth of sentiment, for brevity and strength of expression,...

TSK: Romans 4 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Rom 4:1, Abraham’s faith was imputed to him for righteousness; Rom 4:10, before he was circumcised; Rom 4:13, By faith only he and his ...

Poole: Romans 4 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 4

MHCC: Romans (Book Introduction) The scope or design of the apostle in writing to the Romans appears to have been, to answer the unbelieving, and to teach the believing Jew; to confir...

MHCC: Romans 4 (Chapter Introduction) (Rom 4:1-12) The doctrine of justification by faith is shown by the case of Abraham. (Rom 4:13-22) He received the promise through the righteousness ...

Matthew Henry: Romans (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans If we may compare scripture with scripture, and take the opinion ...

Matthew Henry: Romans 4 (Chapter Introduction) The great gospel doctrine of justification by faith without the works of the law was so very contrary to the notions the Jews had learnt from those...

Barclay: Romans (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: Romans 4 (Chapter Introduction) The Faith Which Takes God At His Word (Rom_4:1-8) The Father Of The Faithful (Rom_4:9-12) All Is Of Grace (Rom_4:13-17) Believing In The God Who M...

Constable: Romans (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical Background Throughout the history of the church, from postapos...

Constable: Romans (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-17 A. Salutation 1:1-7 1. The writer 1:1 ...

Constable: Romans Romans Bibliography Alford, Henry. The Greek Testament. 4 vols. New ed. Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1881. ...

Haydock: Romans (Book Introduction) THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE ROMANS. INTRODUCTION. After the Gospels, which contain the history of Christ, and the Acts of...

Gill: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS Though this epistle is in order placed the first of the epistles, yet it was not first written: there were several epistles ...

Gill: Romans 4 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS 4 The apostle having, in the preceding chapters, proved that there is no justification before God by the works of the law, p...

College: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION I. ROMANS: ITS INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE God's Word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path (Ps 119:105), and no part of it shine...

College: Romans (Outline) VIII. OUTLINE PROLOGUE - 1:1-17 I. EPISTOLARY GREETING - 1:1-7 A. The Author Introduces Himself - 1:1 1. A Slave of Christ Jesus 2. Call...

Advanced Commentary (Dictionaries, Hymns, Arts, Sermon Illustration, Question and Answers, etc)


TIP #20: 'To dig deeper, please read related articles at BIBLE.org (via Articles Tab).' [ALL]
created in 0.13 seconds
powered by
bible.org - YLSA