Sublime

God doesn’t stand for a leader who is doing things his own way, disregarding the good of the people, betraying the God of the universe, and seeking selfish gain.

The classical view of Reformed orthodoxy viewed the law of God in terms of three epochs.

one cannot help feeling that there was a loss of the genius of Calvin’s life project of producing commentaries on the text of Scripture and developing and perfecting the Institutes as a companion to Scripture.

it jeopardizes not simply the Decalogue; it dismantles the truth of the gospel.

Verse 15 is an enormously difficult verse to translate but is probably best understood as combating the heresy and its anti-marriage stance (4:3). A literal translation would yield, “But she will be saved by childbirth, if they remain in faith and love and holiness with propriety.”

That is, Paul opposed the idea that anyone can perform the works of the law (as given by God to Moses)—and by extension any other rule-based system—in order to establish or confirm righteousness before God.

The earliest physical manuscripts we possess today indicate that originally the titles of these books, at least as soon as they came to be collected, were not “The Gospel of Matthew,” “The Gospel of Mark,” but rather “The gospel according to Matthew,” “The gospel according to Mark,” and so on.7

When (in Romans 6:14) Paul affirms that we are not “under law,” he is not denying that the law continues to be relevant. He had been accused of precisely this.19 But already (in Romans 3:31) he had stressed that rather than “overthrow” the law, the gospel functions to “uphold” it. After all, “we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,”