{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/rom013.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/rom013.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/rom013.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nEvery soul\nEvery man. See on Rom 11:3.\nHigher powers (\u1f10\u03be\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f51\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u03c7\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., authorities which have themselves over. See on Mar 2:10; see on Joh 1:12.\nThe powers that be (\u03b1\u1f31 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bf\u1f56\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9)\nLit., the existing. Powers is not in the text, and is supplied from the preceding clause.\nAre ordained (\u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u1f30\u03c3\u03af\u03bd)\nPerfect tense: Have been ordained, and the ordinance remains in force. See on set under authority, Luk 7:8.\nHe that resisteth (\u1f41 \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2)\nLit., setteth himself in array against. See on Pe1 5:5; see on Act 18:6.\nResisteth (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd)\nRev., better, withstandeth. See on Rom 9:19.\nOrdinance (\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b3\u1fc7)\nFrom \u03c4\u03ac\u03c3\u03c3\u03c9 to put in place, which appears in the first resisteth. He setteth himself against that which is divinely set.\nDamnation (\u03ba\u03c1\u1fd6\u03bc\u03b1)\nJudicial sentence. Rev., better, judgment.\nBeareth (\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u1fd6)\nBeareth and weareth. A frequentative form of \u03c6\u03ad\u03c1\u03c9 to bear.\nSword (\u03bc\u03ac\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd)\nSee on Rev 6:4. Borne as the symbol of the magistrate's right to inflict capital punishment. Thus Ulpian: \"They who rule whole provinces have the right of the sword (jus gladii).\" The Emperor Trajan presented to a provincial governor, on starting for his province, a dagger, with the words, \"For me. If I deserve it, in me.\"\nPay ye tribute (\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5)\n\u03a4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5 ye pay is, literally, ye accomplish or fulfill carrying the sense of the fulfillment of an obligation. \u03a6\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 tribute is from \u03c6\u03ad\u03c1\u03c9 to bring something brought. Rev. makes the verb indicative, ye pay.\nGod's ministers (\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u1f76 \u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u1fe6)\nSee on ministration, Luk 1:23, and see on ministered, Act 13:2. In Rom 13:4, \u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 is used for minister. The word here brings out more fully the fact that the ruler, like the priest, discharges a divinely ordained service. Government is thus elevated into the sphere of religion. Hence Rev., ministers of God's service.\nAttending continually\nThe same word as continuing steadfastly in Rom 12:12.\nTo all\nProbably all magistrates, though some explain all men.\nTribute - custom (\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd - \u03c4\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2)\nTribute on persons: custom on goods.\nAnother (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u1f15\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., the other, or the different one, the word emphasizing more strongly the distinction between the two parties. Rev., his neighbor.\nThou shalt not commit adultery, etc.\nOmit thou shalt not bear false witness. The seventh commandment precedes the sixth, as in Mar 10:19; Luk 18:20; Jam 2:11.\nIt is briefly comprehended (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9)\nOnly here and Eph 1:10. Rev., it is summed up. \u1f09\u03bd\u03ac has the force of again in the sense of recapitulation. Compare Lev 19:18. The law is normally a unit in which there is no real separation between the commandments. \"Summed up in one word.\" The verb is compounded, not with \u03ba\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03ae head, but with its derivative \u03ba\u03b5\u03c6\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd the main point.\nNamely thou shalt love, etc. (\u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u1ff7 \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2)\nThe Greek idiom is, it is summed up in the thou shalt love, the whole commandment being taken as a substantive with the definite article.\nNeighbor (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03bf\u03bd)\nSee on Mat 5:43.\nAnd that knowing the time - now\nReferring to the injunction of Rom 13:8. Knowing, seeing that ye know. The time (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd), the particular season or juncture. Rev., season. See on Mat 12:1. Now (\u1f24\u03b4\u03b7), better, already.\nOur salvation (\u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f21 \u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03af\u03b1)\nOthers, however, and better, as Rev., construe \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd of us (salvation of us, i.e., our) with nearer, and render salvation is nearer to us. This is favored by the order of the Greek words. The other rendering would lay an unwarranted emphasis on our. The reference is apparently to the Lord's second coming, rather than to future glory.\nIs far spent (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03ad\u03ba\u03bf\u03c8\u03b5\u03bd)\nThe A.V. gives a variety of renderings to this verb. Luk 2:52, increased; Gal 1:14, profited; Ti2 3:9, proceed; Ti2 3:13, wax. The word originally means to beat forward or lengthen out by hammering. Hence to promote, and intransitively to go forward or proceed.\nLet us cast off (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03b8\u03ce\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1)\nAs one puts off the garments of the night. For this use of the simple \u03c4\u03af\u03b8\u03b7\u03bc\u03b9, see on giveth his life, Joh 10:11.\nHonestly (\u03b5\u1f50\u03c3\u03c7\u03b7\u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03c9\u03c2)\nHonest is originally honorable, and so here. Compare Wyclif's version of Co1 12:23 : \"And the members that be unhonest have more honesty; for our honest members have need of none.\" From \u03b5\u1f50 well, \u03c3\u03c7\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1 fashion. See on Mat 17:2. Hence becomingly. Compare Co1 14:40; Th1 4:12. The word refers more particularly to the outward life, and thus accords with walk, and in the day the time of observation.\nRioting (\u03ba\u03ce\u03bc\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., revellings. See on Pe1 4:3.\nDrunkenness (\u03bc\u03ad\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9\u03c2)\nSee on Luk 21:34; see on Joh 2:10.\nWantonness (\u1f00\u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b3\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03b9\u03c2)\nSee on lasciviousness, Mar 7:22. All these three are plural: riotings, drunkennesses, wantonnesses.\nEnvying (\u03b6\u03ae\u03bb\u03c9)\nRev., jealousy. See on Jam 3:14.\nProvision (\u03c0\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd)\nEtymologically akin to take thought for, in 13:17.\nFlesh\nIn the moral sense: the depraved nature.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Romans: Romans Chapter 13","type":"page"}