Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 2:13

13. For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified .

This, and the two following Verses, are included in a Parenthesis; and they serve to obviate an Objection, against what was said, ver. 12. The Iews might plead, that they were Superiour to the Gentiles, and should be exempted or Priviledg'd in Judgment, for as much as they knew and profest the Law of God, which the Gentiles did not? To this, he sayes, That to know and learn the Law was not sufficient, unless in all things they yielded Obedience to it, which they neither did nor could. The Scope of the Apostle, is not simply to shew how Sinners are now justified in the Sight of God; but to shew what is requisite to Justifications according to the Tenour of the Law; and that is, to do all that is Written therein, and to continue so to do. And if there be any Man that can bring such perfect and constant Obedience of his own Performing, he shall be Justified by God; but in as much as no Man, neither Natural nor Regenerate, can so fulfil the Law; he must seek for Justification in some other way. The Text thus Expounded, doth no way militate with Chap. 3.30. and Gal. 3.11. which at first reading it seems to do. And it further shews, that the Iews are comprehended under the general Curse, as well as the Gentiles, and are bound to have recourse to the Righteousness of God by Faith.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 7.21. [illegible: 1 letter]1.2[illegible: 1 letter].