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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37291	A paraphrase and commentary upon the epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans by William Day ...	Day, William, ca. 1605-1684.	1666 (1666)	Wing D473; ESTC R6047	560,180	444

into their company or houses and their entertaining them which if they should do they would shew themselves simple men yea stark fools They which give ear to false teachers are not onely mis-led by them from the truth which they have learned but come in time to be teachers of those false doctrines themselves yea through pride and vain-glory that they may be esteemed above ordinary men they may in time come to be inventors themselves of more false Doctrines Therefore this admonition may not be amiss in this Respect also Some conceive that the Apostle when he says Be wise to that which is good and simple concerning evil Alludes to that speech of our Saviour Matth. 10.16 Be ye wise as Serpents and innocent as Doves Ver. 20. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet i. e. And if ye be this Supple wise to that which is Good And simple concerning Evil God which is the Authour of peace will tread Satan under your feet who by these his wicked Ministers broacheth these false Doctrines contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned whereby dissentions and schisms are brought into the Church The words as they are here read are verba Sperantis the words of one hoping well concerning that which he speaketh But the words in the Greek are these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may be rendred thus as they are rendred by the Sirack Aethiopique and vulgar Latine translations But the God of peace bruise Satan under your feet quickly And so they are words of one wishing well in what he says to him or them to whom he speaks And this Interpretation I dislike not where note that though in the Greek the verb is of the future tense yet it may be put after the Hebrew manner for an Imperative mood By Satan understand the Devil himself here who is called Satan that is by interpretation an adversary because he is the chief Capital Adversary of man kind yet Satan as he worketh by his wicked ministers as instruments to set on foot false Doctrines that he might cause dissentions and schisms in the Church of Christ where by the Gospel and the end thereof might be hindred Many conceive that the Apostle doth allude here to that passage of Genesis Gen. 3.15 where the Lord saith to the Serpent that is to the Devil concerning the seed of the woman It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ That is the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ and all the blessings proceeding from that favour c. The word Grace primarily signifieth favour But sometimes by a Metonymie the effects of that favour and sometimes again by a Syllepsis both favour and the effects thereof He saith The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ both because the Lord Jesus Christ doth favour us himself and shew us the effects of his favour in blessing us as also because he hath purchased for us the favour of God and the Issue or Effects thereof Amen See Rom. 1.25 Ver. 21. Timotheus my work-fellow This Timotheus is he of whom we read Acts 16.1 2. to whom Saint Paul wrought those two Epistles which are called to Timothy whom he commends divers times to the Churches and whom he ordained Bishop of Ephesus He calls him his work-fellow because he did co-operate and take a part with him in the work of the Ministery in propagating the Gospel Ver. 22. I Tertius who wrought this Epistle This Tertius wrought this Epistle either from S. Pauls mouth or from his Papers Ver. 23. Gaius mine Hoste i. e. Gaius at whose house I lodged and who entertained me nobly Gaius seems to be the Latin or Romane name Caius which the Greek by turning Cappa into Gamma make Gaius And of the whole Church i. e. Of all Christians coming from all parts whom he entertains nobly both at bed and board as we use to say This is a notable commendation of Gaius that he was so noble and hospitable as to entertain all Christians that came at his own house Some think that Gaius is called here the host of the whole Church because the whole Church of Corinth had their meeting place for Divine Service in his House But I prefer the former exposition or conceit Erastus the Chamberline of the City To wit of Corinth The Chamberline i. e. The treasurer or steward of the treasury Ver. 24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. See ver 20. Ver. 25. Now to him that is of power to establish you c. i. e. To God as we shall see ver 27. That is of power i. e. Who onely is of power The word Onely is here to be understood which is expressed ver 27. To establish you according to my Gospel i. e. To establish you and make you stand fast to wit in the faith which ye have received the faith which is according to my Gospel Ellipsis There is an Ellipsis here of the word Faith This he saith that neither they nor any of them be shaken and carried away from the faith by such false teachers as he spake of ver 17. According to my Gospel i. e. According to my preaching The Gospel is taken here by a Metonymie for the preaching of the Gospel He calls the Gospel his Gospel for no other reason then because it was preached by him And the preaching of Jesus Christ q. d. That is according to the preaching which I preach of Jesus Christ The Genitive case of Jesus Christ is Genitivus not Efficientis but Subjecti This particle And is here not a Copulative but an Exegetical particle For the Apostle doth explain here what he meant by those words to wit My Gospel he meaneth his preaching or that which he had preached of Jesus Christ Yet some take the particle And for Yea as though the Apostle would ascend higher and say more here then he said before q. d. according to my preaching said I yea according to the preaching of Jesus Christ taking the word preaching Actively and the Genitive of Jesus Christ for Genitivus Efficientis According to the revelation of the mysteries i. e. According to the revelation of that which was a mystery This depends upon that which went before by apposition Except we understand And here or Or that is q. d. And or that is according to the revelation of that which was a mystery to wit before it was revealed A mystery according to the signification of the word is a thing kept close and unknown The mystery here spoken is the mystery of mans whole Salvation by Christ which mistrey was revealed and made known at first by Christ himself who may therefore be called the Son of Righteousness as Malachi 4.2 And the day-star from on high Luke 1.79 The Revelation of this mystery is nothing else but that which he called the preaching of Jesus Christ but the Apostle amplifies what he said here that he might set the greater value upon