Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Romans 3:17
And the way of peace have they not known:
And the way of peace … – What tends to promote their own happiness, or that of others, they do not regard. Intent on their plans of evil, they do not know or regard what is suited to promote the welfare of themselves or others. This is the case with all who are selfish, and who seek to gain their own purposes of crime and ambition.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. And the way of peace have they not known] They neither have peace in themselves, nor do they suffer others to live in quiet: they are brooders and fomenters of discord.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And the way of peace have they not known. This is a citation front Isa 59:8, and expresses the ignorance of mankind, with regard to true peace, and the way unto it: men are naturally ignorant of the way of peace with God; of the first step which God took towards it; of the council and covenant of peace, in which the scheme of it was drawn, and the method fixed; of Christ the peacemaker, and of the way in which he has made it; and of the Gospel, which reveals and publishes it. They are ignorant of the true way of enjoying peace of conscience; they have no true peace of mind, their consciences are often tortured; and though they may have a stupid and secure peace, yet nothing that is true, real, and solid; for they are without the Spirit, whose fruit is peace; and without faith in Christ, by which true peace only is enjoyed; nor are they spiritually minded, which is life and peace; nor have they any knowledge of the way to have it; they are ready to think it must be had by doing something of their own, and not that it is to be had only in Christ, in his blood and righteousness. They are ignorant of the paths of wisdom, which are peace; peace is enjoyed in them, they lead unto it, and issue in it: they know not the way to eternal peace; they imagine something done by the creature is the way; and are ignorant that Christ is the only way of salvation, the true way to eternal life, everlasting peace and happiness: yea, they know not the way of peace among men, and one another; nor will they do that which is just and right, in order to support and maintain it, but are unjust, deceitful, and quarrelsome; they do not study peace, but rather contention, which they like and approve of. The Jews talk x much of their good nature, affability, and condescension, and of their doing this and that, and the other thing, , “because of the ways of peace”.
x Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect. 8, 9. T. Hieros. Demai, fol. 24. 1. Maimon. Obede Cochabim, c. 10. sect. 5.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The way of peace ( ). Wherever they go they leave a trail of woe and destruction (Denney).
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “And the way of peace,” (kai hodon eirenes) “And a way (road) of peace,” a path of peace, with God or man, Isa 48:22; Isa 59:8. Yet Christ came to bring, to give, and to bequeath soul-peace to those who trust in Him; Luk 2:14 angels announced it; Joh 14:27; Joh 16:33.
2) “Have they not known,” (ouk egnosan) “They do not know;” They have not considered, approved, or practiced. There is or exists no peace of mind, heart, or soul with the wicked, the unsaved, Isa 57:20-21.
Like the unsettled, unstable, shifting waves and murky seawaters that are never still or calm is the soul of every responsible unsaved person. God’s children have peace with God and are to walk in peace before men, Rom 5:11; 2Co 13:11.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
17. It follows, The way of peace they have not known: they are so habituated to plunders, acts of violence and wrong, to savageness and cruelty, that they know not how to act kindly and courteously.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
17. Way of peace Either with God or man.
Not known So completely are their minds occupied with wickedness that righteousness is a thing unthought, unrealized, unknown. This, alas! is often the condition of depraved men. These dark strokes do not indeed describe what all unregenerate persons visibly and practically are. They only declare the depravability, the range of capacity for actual wickedness which the natural man possesses, and the actual wickedness at which multitudes do, and all can, arrive without grace or moral culture.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
Ver. 17. They are restless and troublesome. ]
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
have they not known = they knew not.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Rom 3:17. , they have not known) they neither know, nor wish to know.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
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Rom 3:17
And the way of peace have they not known:-They are strangers to the way of peace. [They do not pursue that course which is productive of happiness. This clause, therefore, includes all the manifestations of an evil heart, which are seen in the numberless ways in which men injure their fellow creatures. What they will not have, they resolve others shall not.]
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
Rom 5:1, Isa 57:21, Isa 59:8, Mat 7:14, Luk 1:79
Reciprocal: 2Ki 9:18 – What hast thou to do Isa 48:22 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Rom 3:17. Not known in the sense of having a practical knowledge of it. They seek not the peace of others, but prefer to heap trouble upon them.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
And the way of peace have they not known [Isa 59:7-8]:
Fuente: McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries (New Testament)
17. The way of peace they have not known. This statement relieves this entire catalogue of the foolish interpretation which unsaved preachers frequently put on it, identifying it with Christianity, but which is true, under their bogus type, you see not really true, as these people have not known the way of peace. Hence they have never been Christians.
Fuente: William Godbey’s Commentary on the New Testament
3:17 And the {l} way of peace have they not known:
(l) An innocent and peaceable life.