Romans 1:4

Romans 1:4 [AV]
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

ANNOTATED NOTES:

declared = horizo: marked out, branded, openly designated. You can see a brand. He was declared, branded, marked out powerfully, by the resurrection from the dead

to be: omitted in the Gr. text, hence italicized in the AV; when the translators of the Authorized Version (also called the King James Version) added English words that were not represented in the original language (Greek in the NT, Hebrew in the OT), they italicized those words to let the reader know that they were added by the translators, with the intent of added clarity.

Son of God: see Mark 1:1; John 20:30-31

spirit of holiness: accurately could read “the Spirit, Who is Holiness”, referring to God. God, who is Spirit, raised Jesus Christ, His Son, from the dead.

by the resurrection from the dead: the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the great keystone to Christianity. Men killed him, God raised him. Now all, Israel and Gentiles, can receive salvation by grace, not by works, through believing the Good News concerning His Son (Rom 1:16-17; 10:8-17). While Christ's birth in Bethlehem was a relatively quiet event in terms of eyewitnesses (a small group of shepherds), his resurrection was publicly made known. He appeared in his resurrected body to hundreds of people (1 Cor 15:4-7), and the truth of the resurrection was proclaimed over and over again by the believers who had witnessed it, as well as others who, while not being eyewitnesses, had believed it (Rom 10:9) and then received the power of the gift of holy spirit into manifestation (see Acts 1:8; 2:1-4; 10:34-46; 19:4-6). In Rom 8:15-17, it is via the spirit, i.e. speaking in tongues, that we have the “witness”, the brand, an open designation with power, that we are children of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (see 1 Cor 12:3).

[, Jesus Christ our Lord.]: see note in v3 concerning the placement of this phrase in the Gr. text at the end of v4. Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead, IS our Lord – we don’t take orders from an individual, or a denomination, or a society. We take orders from our living Lord, Jesus Christ, whom God powerfully marked out for all to see by the resurrection from the dead.

ALTERNATIVE TRANSLATION:

Romans 1:4 [LIT]
who was marked out as the Son of God with power according to the Spirit, Who is Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead - Jesus Christ our Lord.


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