Teks -- Romans 10:3 (NET)

10:3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

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Robertson: Rom 10:3 - Being ignorant of God’ s righteousness

Being ignorant of God’ s righteousness ( agnoountes tēn tou theou dikaiosunēn ).

A blunt thing to say, but true as Paul has shown in 2:1-3:20. They did not understand the God-kind of righteousness by faith (Rom 1:17). They misconceived it (Rom 2:4).

Robertson: Rom 10:3 - They did not subject themselves

They did not subject themselves ( ouch hupetagēsan ).

Second aorist passive indicative of hupotassō , common Koiné[28928]š verb, to put oneself under orders, to obey, here the passive in sense of the middle (Jam 4:7) like apekrithēn , I answered.

Vincent: Rom 10:3 - God's righteousness

God's righteousness

That mentioned in Rom 9:30. Compare Phi 3:9; Rom 1:16, Rom 1:17; Rom 3:20-22.

Vincent: Rom 10:3 - To establish

To establish ( στῆσαι )

Or set up , indicating their pride in their endeavor. They would erect a righteousness of their own as a monument to their own glory and not to God's.

Wesley: Rom 10:3 - For they being ignorant of the righteousness of God

Of the method God has established for the justification of a sinner.

Wesley: Rom 10:3 - And seeking to establish their own righteousness

Their own method of acceptance with God.

Wesley: Rom 10:3 - Have not submitted to the righteousness of God

The way of justification which he hath fixed.

JFB: Rom 10:3 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness

That is, for the justification of the guilty (see on Rom 1:17).

JFB: Rom 10:3 - and going about

"seeking"

JFB: Rom 10:3 - to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God

The apostle views the general rejection of Christ by the nation as one act.

Clarke: Rom 10:3 - For - being ignorant of God’ s righteousness

For - being ignorant of God’ s righteousness - Not knowing God’ s method of saving sinners, which is the only proper and efficient method: and going about to establish their own righteousness - seeking to procure their salvation by means of their own contriving; they have not submitted - they have not bowed to the determinations of the Most High, relative to his mode of saving mankind, viz. through faith in Jesus Christ, as the only available sacrifice for sin - the end to which the law pointed.

Calvin: Rom 10:3 - For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, etc

3.For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, etc See how they went astray through inconsiderate zeal! for they sought to set up a righteousness of their own; and this foolish confidence proceeded from their ignorance of God’s righteousness. Notice the contrast between the righteousness of God and that of men. We first see, that they are opposed to one another, as things wholly contrary, and cannot stand together. It hence follows, that God’s righteousness is subverted, as soon as men set up their own. And again, as there is a correspondence between the things contrasted, the righteousness of God is no doubt his gift; and in like manner, the righteousness of men is that which they derive from themselves, or believe that they bring before God. Then he who seeks to be justified through himself, submits not to God’s righteousness; for the first step towards obtaining the righteousness of God is to renounce our own righteousness: for why is it, that we seek righteousness from another, except that necessity constrains us?

We have already stated, in another place, how men put on the righteousness of God by faith, that is, when the righteousness of Christ is imputed to them. But Paul grievously dishonors the pride by which hypocrites are inflated, when they cover it with the specious mask of zeal; for he says, that all such, by shaking off as it were the yoke, are adverse to and rebel against the righteousness of God.

TSK: Rom 10:3 - God’ s righteousness // to establish // submitted

God’ s righteousness : ""God’ s method of justification,""says Abp. Newcome: God’ s method of saving sinners. Rom 1:17, Rom 3:22, Rom 3:26, Rom 5:19, Rom 9:30; Psa 71:15, Psa 71:16, Psa 71:19; Isa 51:6, Isa 51:8, Isa 56:1; Jer 23:5, Jer 23:6; Dan 9:24; Joh 16:9, Joh 16:10; 2Co 5:21; 2Pe 1:1

to establish : Rom 9:31, Rom 9:32; Isa 57:12, Isa 64:6; Luk 10:29, Luk 16:15, Luk 18:9-12; Gal 5:3, Gal 5:4; Phi 3:9; Rev 3:17, Rev 3:18

submitted : Lev 26:41; Neh 9:33; Job 33:27; Lam 3:22; Dan 9:6-9; Luk 15:17-21

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Poole: Rom 10:3 - They being ignorant of God’ s righteousness // Going about to establish their own righteousness // Have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God

They being ignorant of God’ s righteousness: here he shows more particularly what knowledge the Jews wanted. They knew not the righteousness of God; of which see Rom 1:17 , with the notes there. This was abundantly manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, Rom 3:21 ; and a thing very needful to be known, as being that wherein man’ s happiness consisted; but they were ignorant of it.

Going about to establish their own righteousness their personal and inherent righteousness, a home-made righteousness, which is of their own spinning; this they designed to set up in the room of God’ s righteousness.

Have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God this notes the pride that accompanied their ignorance, and that is in the hearts of men by nature. They will not go abroad for that which they think they have, or may have, at home. They will not be beholden to another for that which they suppose they have in themselves. They have righteousness enough of their own working; and therefore they reject and withdraw themselves from that which is of God’ s appointing.

PBC: Rom 10:3 - For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness

" For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness"

It is a zeal which manifests willful ignorance of the imputed righteousness of Christ.

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Haydock: Rom 10:3 - The justice of God // Seeking to establish their own

The justice of God. That is, the justice which God giveth us through Christ; as, on the other hand, the Jews' own justice is that which the pretended to by their own strength, or by the observance of the law, without faith in Christ. (Challoner) ---

Seeking to establish their own. That is, for justice, or to be justified by their works, or the works of their written law. (Witham)

Gill: Rom 10:3 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness // going about to establish their own righteousness // have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God

For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,.... Either of the righteousness of God revealed in the Gospel, which is no other than the righteousness of Christ, and which they knew nothing of, the whole Gospel being a sealed book, and wholly hidden from them; or of the righteousness of God required in the law, they imagining that only an external conformity to the commands of the law, was all that was necessary to attain to a justifying righteousness by it, not knowing the spirituality of it, and that it required conformity of heart and nature, as well as life and conversation; or rather of the attribute of God's righteousness, the strictness of his justice, the purity and holiness of his nature: for though they knew that he was holy, just, and righteous, yet did not think he was so strict as to insist upon every punctilio, and to take notice of every little default and defect in obedience; and especially that he had any regard to the heart and the thoughts of it, and required perfect purity there or that he would accept of nothing less than an absolutely perfect and complete righteousness; nor justify any without full satisfaction to his justice: hence they were

going about to establish their own righteousness; which they would never have done, had they known the righteousness of God, in either of the above senses; the Alexandrian copy, and some others, omit the word "righteousness", and only read, "their own", leaving it to be understood, and which is easily done; and so reads the Vulgate Latin version: by "their own righteousness", as opposed to God's, is meant the righteousness of works, their obedience to the law, an outward conformity to it, an observance of the rituals of it, and a little negative holiness. This they endeavoured to "establish" or "make to stand" in the sight of God, as their justifying righteousness, which is all one as setting chaff and stubble, briers and thorns, to a consuming fire; as the attempt expresses madness in them, the phrase suggests weakness in their righteousness, which they would fain make to stand, but could not, it being like a spider's web before the besom, or like a dead carcass, which men would set upon its feet to stand alone, but it cannot; than which nothing can be a greater instance of egregious folly: their "going about" or "seeking" to do this, shows their ignorant zeal, and the toil, the pains, the labour they used to effect it, but all in vain, and to no purpose; as appears by their hearing, reading, fasting, praying, giving alms to the poor, and tithes of all they possessed; all which they were very careful and studious of, and especially to have them done in the sight of men: and so it was that they

have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God; that is, the righteousness of Christ, so called, because approved and accepted of by God, imputed by him to his people, and given them by him as a free gift, and which only justifies in his sight; and because it is wrought by Christ, who is truly and properly God, and revealed and applied by the Spirit of God. This the Jews submitted not to, because they had no true humble sense of themselves as sinners, nor did they care to acknowledge themselves as such; which submission to Christ's righteousness requires and necessarily involves in it; no man will ever be subject to it, till he is made sensible of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and brought to an humble acknowledgment of it; the Spirit of God first convinces of sin and then of righteousness; and because they had an overweening opinion of their own righteousness, which they trusted to, and depended upon, imagining it to be blameless, and to contain all that the law required, and therefore they stood in no need of any other; and as for the righteousness of Christ they had it in contempt, their carnal minds being enmity to him, were not subject to his righteousness, nor could they, nor can any be, without the powerful efficacious grace of God, making them willing in the day of his power. This phrase denotes the rebellion of their wills, against Christ and his righteousness, they acting as rebellious subjects against their sovereign prince.