God's Judgment and the Law
And
knowest his
will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being
instructed out of the law; Rom 2:18
Paul tells these self-righteous people that they are without excuse. They had the law, yet they did not understand. They were trying to instruct others and didn’t even comprehend themselves.
1 Corinthians 1:31″ That, according as it is written, He THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY in the Lord.”
The
verbs used in this list are all in the present tense or have the
force of the present, which emphasizes the habitual nature of the
action: (1) The Jews rely on the Law; they put their confidence in
the fact that God gave it to them. (2) The Jews brag about their
relationship to God (lit., “boast in God”; cf. Rom. 2:23), which
means they glory in their covenantal ties with God. As a result of
these two things the Jews (3) know His will (they have an awareness
of God’s desires and plan) and they (4) approve of (dokimazeis,
“to test and approve what passes the test”) what is superior
(diapheronta,
“the things that differ and as a result excel”; the same Gr. word
in Phlp. 1:10 is trans. “what is best”). They have a concern for
spiritually superior standards. These abilities of Jews exist because
they (5) are instructed (lit., “are being instructed”) by the
Law. Their catechetical lessons as youths and the regular reading of
the Law in the synagogues provided this continuing instruction.
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