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In writing this commentary, the author became impressed at Paul's burden for the Jews. He believed that the main burden of Paul in 1:18–3:20 was to get the Jew to see that he was lost. Paul gave considerably more attention to the case against the Jews in 2:1–3:8 than he did the Gentile in 1:18–32. Paul's burden in chapters 9, 10, and 11 was to get the unbelieving Jew to see that he was lost. He...

(Greek kalos) appears in vv. 16, 18b, and 21. Denney explains, “Kalos suggests the moral beauty or nobility of the law, not like agathos (ver. 12) its beneficial purpose” (641). The word in vv. 12, 13, 18a, 19 (agathos) refers to the law as “good to me” or “for me.” The word in vv. 16, 18b, 21 (kalos) refers to the beauty or excellence of the law. The word translated “consent” (Greek sumphemi, made up of sun “with” and phemi “to say or speak”) means “to speak with.” Thus it comes to mean “to consent”
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