Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Romans 2:10
But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
10. glory, honour, and peace ] A beautiful return to the thought of Rom 2:7, as if out of an abundance of inspired love and hope. “ Peace ” may here bear a special reference to the peace of acceptance, of which the Epistle is to say so much. Not that this would exclude the larger meaning of all safety and happiness.
to the Jew first ] See on Rom 1:16.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 10. But glory, honour, and peace] While the finally impenitent Jew and Gentile shall experience the fullest effects of the righteous indignation of the supreme Judge, even man that worketh good-that lives in a conscientious obedience to the known will of God, whether he be Jew or Gentile, shall have glory, honour, and peace; i.e. eternal blessedness.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Peace; what he called immortality, Rom 2:7, he now calls peace; which word, according to the usual acceptation of it amongst the Hebrews, is comprehensive of all good and happiness, both here and hereafter.
To the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; as the ungodly and unbelieving Jews shall have the first place in punishment, so those that believe and are godly amongst them shall have the first place in reward, though yet, for the reason mentioned in the next verse, the godly and believing Gentiles shall share with them therein.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. to the Jew firstfirst inperdition if unfaithful; but if obedient to the truth, first insalvation (Ro 2:10).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But glory, honour, and peace,…. Which are so many words for the everlasting happiness of the saints; which is a “crown of glory that fadeth not away” (1Pe 5:4); an honour exceeding that of the greatest potentates upon earth, since such that enjoy it will be kings and priests, and sit with Christ on his throne to all eternity; and is a peace that passes all understanding: all which will be rendered
to every man that doth good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; which none without Christ, and his grace, and by the strength of nature, does, or can do; not that good works are causes of salvation, but are testimonies of faith, and fruits of grace, with which salvation is connected, whether they be found in Jews or Gentiles; for neither grace nor salvation are peculiar to any nation, or set of people.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1) But glory, honor, and peace, (doksa de kai Time kai eirene) But glory, and honor, and peace, instead of anguish. Obedience to God brings glory, honor, peace, and length of days to every believer, Pro 3:2; Pro 3:17; Eph 6:1-3.
2) To every man that worketh good, (Panti to ergazomeno to agatho) To everyone working the good, going on in good works, in obedience to the Law of God he is under, whether before, during, or after the Law Age. The way of Salvation has been the same in every age, but worship and service differ, Act 10:43; Eph 3:21; Eph 2:10.
3) To the Jew first, and also to the Greek, (loudio te proton kai Helleni) Both to the Jew firstly and (to) the Greek, Joh 1:11-12; Mat 11:28; During our Lords personal ministry and at Pentecost our Lords message and empowering were to the Jews first, but also to the Greeks and Gentiles, Mat 4:13-17; Act 1:8; Act 1:21-22; Act 10:36-43.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
‘But glory and honour and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek,’
But lest the Jew think that he is prejudiced against them by suggesting that they are first on God’s target list, Paul then points out that the same priority applies to those who work good. For, as he has already demonstrated in Rom 2:7, to every man who works good there will be glory and honour and peace (wellbeing). Thus none who are truly God-like, if such there be, will lose out, and again the Jew takes precedence. But as we shall see, Paul will inexorably ram home his argument that none achieve this standard, for all have sinned (Rom 3:10-18).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Ver. 10. Peace ] Safety here and salvation hereafter.
To every man that worketh good ] Yet not for his work’s sake, because no proportion between the work and the wages; no more than between in a nutshell. That wretched monk therefore died blasphemously, who said, Redde mihi aeternam vitam quam debes, Pay me eternal life, that thou owest me. And how dare Bellarmine say, that good works are mercatura regni caelestis, the price we pay for heaven? or that other Papist, God forbid, that we should enjoy heaven as of mere alms to us: no, we have it by conquest. Strange impudence!
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
10. ] Here in its highest and most glorious sense, see reff.
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Rom 2:10 f. is probably = , a comprehensive term, rather = salvation, than peace in any narrower sense. The Jew still comes first, but it is only order that is involved: the same principle underlies the judgment for Jew and Gentile. It would amount to in God, if He made a difference in the Jew’s favour because of his birth, or because he possessed the law. This is expanded in Rom 2:12-16 : mere possession of the law does not count. Men are judged according to their works, whether they have or have not had such a special revelation of the Divine will as was given to Israel.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
worketh. Greek. ergazomai, as Rom 4:1.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
10. ] Here in its highest and most glorious sense, see reff.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Rom 2:10. , but glory and honour. Glory, originating in the Divine good pleasure; honour, originating in the reward bestowed by God; and peace, for the present and for ever. For the , but, expresses the opposition between wrath, and glory; indignation, and honour; affliction and anxiety [tribulation and anguish], and peace. Comp. ch. Rom 3:17; Rom 3:16, of which catalogue the joys are viewed, as they proceed from God; the sorrows as they are felt by man; for the latter are put absolutely in the nominative, while the former, on the contrary, are put in the accusative in Rom 2:7, as being such things, as God bestows. But why are honour and sorrow set in opposition to each other, since disgrace is the converse of honour, sorrow of pleasure? Ans.: In this passage, we must carefully attend to the word , peace, which is here opposed to sorrow, that is to say, to tribulation and anguish. But at Isa 65:13, joy (and honour) is opposed to shame (and grief), each of the two parts of the sentence being expressed in abbreviated form, and requiring to be supplied from its own opposite. Besides, in the classification of goods, honour is the highest good, and, in the classification of punishments, sorrow is the greatest punishment; and the highest degree on the one side, including all below it, is opposed to the highest degree on the other; so we have glorying and woe, 1Co 9:16.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
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but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:-To all who work good God will bring honor and peace. These blessings shall come first to the Jew, then to the Greek. [As in the matter of punishment the Jew outranks the Greek because of his failure to take advantage of his better opportunities, so in the matter of blessing the same unbiased justice gives him preeminence because of the better life.]
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
glory: Rom 2:7, Rom 9:21, Rom 9:23, 1Sa 2:30, Psa 112:6-9, Pro 3:16, Pro 3:17, Pro 4:7-9, Pro 8:18, Luk 9:48, Luk 12:37, Joh 12:26, 1Pe 1:7, 1Pe 5:4
and peace: Rom 5:1, Rom 8:6, Rom 14:17, Rom 15:13, Num 6:26, Job 22:21, Psa 29:11, Psa 37:37, Isa 26:12, Isa 32:17, Isa 48:18, Isa 48:22, Isa 55:12, Isa 57:19, Jer 33:6, Mat 10:13, Luk 1:79, Luk 22:14, Luk 19:42, Joh 14:27, Joh 16:33, Gal 5:22, Phi 4:7
to every: Psa 15:2, Pro 11:18, Isa 32:17, Act 10:35, Gal 5:6, Jam 2:22, Jam 3:13
Gentile: Gr. Greek
Reciprocal: 2Ch 6:23 – justifying Isa 56:3 – the son Eze 16:52 – which hast Joh 5:44 – and Act 3:26 – first Act 13:46 – It was Rom 2:9 – of the Jew Gal 3:28 – neither 1Pe 1:17 – who
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Rom 2:10. This verse is for emphasis on verse 7.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Rom 2:10. Glory and honor and peace. (Comp. Rom 2:7.) Peace is here used in its fullest sense; in the Old Testament it includes peace, plenty, and prosperity, but with more of a temporal reference than in its New Testament use. Comp. chap. Rom 8:6, and similar passages.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Vv. 10. The third term: peace, describes the subjective feeling of the saved man at the time when glory and honor are conferred on him by the judge. It is the profound peace which is produced by deliverance from wrath, and the possession of unchangeable blessedness. The simple , to do, is substituted for the compound , to effect (Rom 2:9), which implies something ruder and more violent, as is suited to evil; comp. the analogous though not identical difference between and , Joh 3:20-21.
On the word first, comp. the remarks made Rom 1:16, Rom 2:9.
Here again the apostle indicates the result finally reached, whether evil or good, without expressly mentioning the means by which it may be produced; on the one hand, the rejection of the gospel (Rom 2:9), as the supreme sin, at once the effect and the cause of evil-doing; on the other, its acceptance (Rom 2:10), as effect and cause of the determination to follow goodness and of its practice. But what is the foundation of such a judgment? One of God’s perfections, which the Jew could not deny without setting himself in contradiction to the whole Old Testament, the impartiality of God, whose judgment descends on evil wherever it is found, with or without law Rom 2:11-12).
Fuente: Godet Commentary (Luke, John, Romans and 1 Corinthians)
but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: