Romans 2:17-29 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,… Four terms set forth the moral treatment to which the Jew, as the born physician of mankind, subjects his patients, the Gentiles, to their complete cure. "Thou art confident" describes his pretentious assurance. And, first, he takes the poor Gentile by the hand as one does "a blind man," offering to "guide" him; then he opens his eyes, dissipating his "darkness" by the "light" of revelation; then he "rears" him, as one who would bring up a being yet "without reason"; finally, when through all this care he has come to the stage of the "little child" (one who cannot speak — a designation of proselytes), he initiates him into the full knowledge of the truth, by becoming his "teacher." (Prof. Godet.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,WEB: Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, |
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