Romans Chapter 3 verse 27 Holy Bible
Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.
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What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
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Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;
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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
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Where then `is' the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Where then is the boasting? (that of the Jew, referred to in ch. 2, of his superiority to the Gentile with regard to justification). It is excluded. By what manner of (ποίου) law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. Is it, then, here implied that the law of works would allow of boasting? Not so practically. But its theory would leave room for it, on the supposition of its conditions being fulfilled; it is a kind of law (observe ποίου νόμου;) which does not exclude it; for if a man could say, "I have fulfilled all the righteousness of the Law," he would have something wherein to glory. But the principle of the law of faith, which has been shown to be the only one available for the justification of either Jew or Gentile, in itself excludes it. It will be observed that the strict sense of the word νόμος, hitherto preserved, is extended in νόμος πίστεως. (For the various applications of which the word is capable, see especially ch. 7.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27-31) A review of the consequences of this process of justification. How does it affect the pretensions of the Jew? It shuts them out by laying stress no longer on works, which were the proper fulfilment of the first law as it stood, but upon faith. Faith is the true medium of justification. And faith belongs as much to Gentile as to Jew. For faith is the appointed means by which all mankind will be justified; and they will all be justified before the same tribunal, whether they be circumcised or not. Still this involves no abrogation of the Law, but rather a confirmation of it.(27) It is excluded.--Strictly, It was excluded--at the moment when the law of faith--i.e., the gospel--was brought in.By what law?--Properly, By what kind of law? Is this law which gets rid of boasting one which calls for works; or is it one that calls for faith?The law of faith.--Another name for the gospel.
