Romans 1:2

Which he had promised afore,.... The Gospel is here further commended from the antiquity it: it was no novel doctrine, an upstart notion, but what God had conceived in his own breast from eternity.…

Which he had promised afore - Which gospel, or which doctrines, he had before announced. By the prophets - The word “prophets” here is used to include those who wrote as well as those who spake. It…

Which he had promised afore - Both in the law and in the prophets God showed his purpose to introduce into the world a more perfect and glorious state of things; which state was to take place by and…

In this paragraph we have,

I. The person who writes the epistle described (Rom 1:1): Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ; this is his title of honour, which he glories in, not as the Jewish teachers,…

which he had promised afore This verse is not properly a parenthesis. See on Rom 1:3. The Promiseof the great Deliverer, running through the O. T., is one of the most wonderful of the phenomena of…