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Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Greek text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Bible book, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say. The...

wrath of God, as Paul explains it in the following paragraphs, shows that God is equitable and fair. He reveals it against creatures who continue to stifle the truth that he has clearly demonstrated to them. The present tense of the verbs “is revealed” (ἀποκαλύπτεται) and “stifle” (κατεχόντων) is important for two reasons.7 First, it shows that God’s wrath is not merely something that will happen in the future on “the day of … wrath” (2:5) but is something that takes place in the present.8 Second,
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