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5:27 Thou shalt not commit adultery - And this, as well as the sixth commandment, the scribes and Pharisees interpreted barely of the outward act. Exodus 20:14.

5:29 If a person as dear as a right eye, or as useful as a right hand, cause thee thus to offend, though but in heart. Perhaps here may be an instance of a kind of transposition which is frequently found in the sacred writings: so that the Matthaeum 5:29 may refer to Matthaeum 5:27, Matthaeum 5:28; and the Matthaeum 5:30 to Matthaeum 5:21-22. Matthaeum 5:29, Matthaeum 5:27, Matthaeum 5:28, Matthaeum 5:30, Matthaeum 5:21, Matthaeum 5:22. As if he had said, Part with any thing, however dear to you, or otherwise useful, if you cannot avoid sin while you keep it.Even cut off your right hand, if you are of so passionate a temper, that you cannot otherwise be restrained from hurting your brother. Pull out your eyes, if you can no otherwise be restrained from lusting after women. Matthaeum 18:8; Marcum 9:42.

5:30 See note at Matthaeum 5:29.

5:31 Let him give her a writing of divorce - Which the scribes and Pharisees allowed men to do on any trifling occasion. Deuteronomii 24:1; Matthaeum 19:7; Marcum 10:2; Lucam 16:18.

5:32 Causeth her to commit adultery - If she marry again.

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2:1 Therefore - The apostle now makes a transition from the gentiles to the Jews, till, at Romanos 2:6, he comprises both. Thou art inexcusable - Seeing knowledge without practice only increases guilt. O man - Having before spoken of the gentile in the third person, he addresses the Jew in the second person. But he calls him by a common appellation, as not acknowledging him to be a Jew.See verses Romanos 2:17, Romanos 2:28. Whosoever thou art that judgest - Censurest, condemnest.For in that thou judgest the other - The heathen.Thou condemnest thyself; for thou doest the same things - In effect; in many instances.

2:2 For we know - Without thy teaching That the judgment of God - Not thine, who exceptest thyself from its sentence. Is according to truth - Is just, making no exception, Romanos 2:5, Romanos 2:6, Romanos 2:11; and reaches the heart as well as the life, Romanos 2:16.

2:3 That thou shalt escape - Rather than the gentile.

2:4 Or despisest thou - Dost thou go farther still, - from hoping to escape his wrath, to the abuse of his love?.The riches - The abundance. Of his goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering - Seeing thou both hast sinned, dost sin, and wilt sin. All these are afterwards comprised in the single word goodness. Leadeth thee - That is, is designed of God to lead or encourage thee to it.

2:5 Treasurest up wrath - Although thou thinkest thou art treasuring up all good things. O what a treasure may a man lay up either way, in this short day of life! To thyself - Not to him whom thou judgest. In the day of wrath, andrevelation, and righteous judgment of God - Just opposite to "the goodness and forbearance and longsuffering" of God. WhenGod shall be revealed, then shall also be "revealed" the secrets of men's hearts, Romanos 2:16.Forbearance and revelation respect God, and are opposed to each other; longsuffering and righteous judgment respect the sinner; goodness and wrath are words of a more general import.

2:6  Proverbiorum 24:12

2:7 To them that seek for glory - For pure love does not exclude faith, hope, desire, 1 Corinthios 15:58.

2:8 But to them that are contentious - Like thee, O Jew, who thus fightest against God. The character of a false Jew is disobedience, stubbornness, impatience. Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish - Alluding to Psalmorum 77:49"He cast upon them," the Egyptians. "thefierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble;" and finely intimating, that the Jews would in the day of vengeance be more severely punished than even the Egyptians were when God made their plagues so wonderful.

2:9 Of the Jew first - Here we have the first express mention of the Jews in this chapter. And it is introduced with great propriety. Their having been trained up in the true religion, and having had Christ and his apostles first sent to them, will place them in the foremost rank of the criminals that obey not the truth.