Teks -- Romans 4:24 (NET)

4:24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

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Robertson: Rom 4:24 - Him that raised up Jesus

Him that raised up Jesus ( ton egeiranta Iēsoun ).

First aorist active articular participle of egeirō , to raise up. The fact of the Resurrection of Jesus is central in Paul’ s gospel (1Co 15:4.).

Vincent: Rom 4:24 - It shall be reckoned

It shall be reckoned ( μέλλει λογίζεσθαι )

Not the future of the verb to reckon , but μέλλω to intend points to God's definite purpose. See on Act 27:2; see on 2Pe 1:12.

Vincent: Rom 4:24 - Who believe

Who believe

Since we are those who believe.

Wesley: Rom 4:24 - But on ours also

To establish us in seeking justification by faith, and not by works; and to afford a full answer to those who say that, " to be justified by works means only, by Judaism; to be justified by faith means, by embracing Christianity, that is, the system of doctrines so called." Sure it is that Abraham could not in this sense be justified either by faith or by works; and equally sure that David (taking the words thus) was justified by works, and not by faith.

Wesley: Rom 4:24 - Who raised up Jesus from the dead

As he did in a manner both Abraham and Sarah.

Wesley: Rom 4:24 - If we believe on him who raised up Jesus

God the Father therefore is the proper object of justifying faith. It is observable, that St. Paul here, in speaking both of our faith and of the faith of Abraham, puts a part for the whole. And he mentions that part, with regard to Abraham, which would naturally affect the Jews most.

JFB: Rom 4:23-25 - Now, &c.

Here is the application of this whole argument about Abraham: These things were not recorded as mere historical facts, but as illustrations for all time of God's method of justification by faith.

JFB: Rom 4:24 - to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead

In Him that hath done this, even as Abraham believed that God would raise up a seed in whom all nations should be blessed.

Clarke: Rom 4:24 - But for us also

But for us also - The mention of this circumstance has a much more extensive design than merely to honor Abraham. It is recorded as the model, according to which God will save both Jews and Gentiles: indeed there can be no other way of salvation; as all have sinned, all must either be saved by faith through Christ Jesus, or finally perish. If God, therefore, will our salvation, it must be by faith; and faith contemplates his promise, and his promise comprehends the Son of his love.

Calvin: Rom 4:24 - Who believe on him

24.Who believe on him, etc. I have already reminded you of the design of those periphrastic expressions: Paul introduced them, that he might, according to what the passages may require, describe in various ways the real character of faith — of which the resurrection of Christ is not the smallest part; for it is the ground of our hope as to eternal life. Had he said only, that we believe in God, it could not have been so readily learnt how this could serve to obtain righteousness; but when Christ comes forth and presents to us in his own resurrection a sure pledge of life, it then appears evident from what fountain the imputation of righteousness flows.

TSK: Rom 4:24 - for us // if we

for us : Act 2:39

if we : Rom 10:9, Rom 10:10; Mar 16:16; Joh 3:14-16; Act 2:24, Act 13:30; Eph 1:18-20; Heb 13:20,Heb 13:21; 1Pe 1:21

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Poole: Rom 4:23-24

Ver. 23,24. Here it may be inquired, If Abraham’ s faith did justify him, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, what doth this concern us? The apostle answers, it was recorded of him for our sakes; see Rom 15:4 ; and to us there shall be the like imputation, if we believe in God, that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. This a greater act of faith than Abraham’ s was. And the nature of justifying faith lies rather in affiance, or in putttag trust in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, than in assent, or in giving credit, to the truth of his promise.

Question. Why doth the apostle single out this act of raising Christ from the dead to describe the Father by?

Answer. To maintain the proportion betwixt the faith or Abraham and the faith of his seed; that as his respected the power of God, in raising, as it were, the dead, so in like sort should ours. So some. But the apostle speaks as if there were some special reason and ground for confidence in God for justification in this act of raising Christ from the dead; and indeed nothing is more fit to establish our faith in persuasion of our justification than this; for when God raised up our Lord Jesus Christ, having loosed the pains of death, he gave full assurance that his justice is fully satisfied for our sins. Had not Christ Jesus, our surety, paid the utmost farthing that was due for our sins, he had still continued in prison, and under the power of death. Hence it is that the apostle Peter tells us, 1Pe 1:3 , that God hath begotten us to a lively hope of the heavenly inheritance by the resurrection of Christ from the dead; there being no more effectual means to persuade us of the pardon of sin, of reconciliation with God, and of acceptance to eternal life, than that Jesus Christ, our surety and sponsor, is risen from the dead.

Gill: Rom 4:24 - But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed // if // we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed,.... What was written in the books of the Old Testament, was not written merely on account of them who are the subjects thereof, but for the use, learning, instruction and profit of saints under the New Testament dispensation; and particularly this concerning the pulsation of Abraham's faith for righteousness, or of the imputation of the righteousness of faith unto him for justification; which was not Abraham's faith, but that "righteousness" which his faith looked to, and laid hold on: see Rom 4:12; for Abraham's faith itself could never be reckoned for righteousness to another, nor indeed was it to himself; but such as believe as Abraham did, they have the same righteousness imputed to them as he had; and truly of the same kind is the faith of Abraham, who believed in "God that quickeneth the dead", Rom 4:17; and that of ours:

if, or "seeing"

we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; which descriptive of the faith of New Testament believers, and of the object of it; see Rom 10:9; and which object of faith is further described in Rom 4:25.