because what should be known of God they are acquainted with; for God hath manifested it unto them.

because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.

an instructer of the ignorant, a teacher to the weak, because you have a clear view of the true meaning of the law.

much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

now hope will not deceive us, because the love of God is diffused thro' our hearts, by the holy spirit which is given to us;

for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel?

(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

and he that penetrates into the heart approves what the spirit desires, because what he demands for the saints is agreeable to the divine will.

why? because they sought it not by faith, but indeed by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

because being ignorant of the justice which is of God, and going about to establish a justification of their own, they have not submitted themselves to that which is of God.

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually