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The law cannot deliver the promises of God, since nobody can keep the law. Instead, Paul now writes, the law brings God's wrath in judgment for human sin, for lawbreaking. Without the law, on the other hand, Paul writes that there is no transgression.
The law worketh wrath, by showing that every transgressor is exposed to the Divine displeasure. As God intended to give men a title to the promised blessings, so he appointed it to be by faith, that it might be wholly of grace, to make it sure to all who were of the like precious faith with Abraham, whether Jews or Gentiles, in all ages.
For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. Young's Literal Translation for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.
- Introduction
- Ground Rules
- Hypothesis
- Linguistic and Textual Evidence
- Interpreting The Numerical Data
- Additional Evidence
- Interpreting The Additional Evidence
- What Wrath Is and Is Not
- Bigger Historical and Biblical Perspective
- Conclusion
What’s with all the wrathin’ and a-smitin’ in the Old Testament? That’s what many people ask. I’m a radical believer in the radical grace of God. But if I don’t explore this topic, some people may accuse me of hiding unpleasant truths and focusing on feel-good, sugarcoated doctrines alone. Let’s get started. In Rom. 4:15, Paul has a profound insigh...
Let me discuss the study method and limitations. I don’t offer the meaning of the words in this study all the time, because they mean anger, wrath, fury, and so on. But I note it when in some contexts they mean zeal, nostrils, discord, sorrow, and so on. Generally those are not counted, unless they’re metaphors for or actually mean wrath and anger ...
Our hypothesis will help us navigate through the biblical data. We’ll use it to reach conclusions about the thesis. The hypothesis is in two parts. (1) The key Hebrew words will rarely appear against his chosen people before the Law of Moses was given; (2) The Hebrew words will appear against his covenanted people most often after the Law of Moses ...
1. Ap: 207: before the law was it is not used of God except in Exod. 4:14, when the anger of the Lord burned against Moses – the lawgiver – and in 15:7, when the blast of God’s nostril (anger) threw the Egyptian army into the sea. Of the 207 times, the word appears, meaning wrath or anger (not nostrils, etc.), 167 times it refers to God, after the ...
These totals are close approximations. The words wrath, anger, furyand their synonyms appear 658 times, whether about God or humans. Of the 658, God shows wrath 499 times. So humans have wrath or anger 159 times. Of the 499, God shows his wrath against his people 448 times after the Law of Moses was thundered down. On his chosen people before the l...
Though most of those Hebrew words do not appear before the law was given, God’s wrath in action – without the words – can be seen, for example, in Adam and Eve’s punishments (Gen. 3); in the flood (though the text speaks specifically of grief that motivated God); on Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19); and the ten plagues on the Egyptians (Exod. 7:14-11:1...
Genesis has 50 chapters, and we’re counting the first 19 chapters in Exodus, totaling 69. Of course the vast majority of those Hebrew words appear in chapters after those 69, because there are a lot more chapters. But what’s startling is how few times the words appear in the 69 – and only once on God’s chosen vessel – Moses, the lawgiver. However, ...
We are now in a better position to interpret the wrath of God in the entire sweep of the OT. Paul’s insight goes deeper than just a raw data word count or these stories. Paul says in Romans there is something flawed with the mixture of religious law (which is holy), covenant (a beneficial relationship), and unholy human nature (the fatal flaw). Law...
We must look at God’s wrath in the larger historical and biblical perspective. As noted, covenant is tied to law and justice in the OT. Two parties voluntarily entered into an agreement. The privileged partner (God) promised to keep them safe and bless their agricultural life, their resources. He also instituted the priesthood to teach them how to ...
We discussed the first half of Paul’s great insight at the end of the Summary section, above. It says the law, covenant, and humans are a toxic mixture. The holy law stimulates sin in sinful humans who persistently break the covenant (Rom. 7:7-13); sin must be justly punished (wrath); so “the law brings wrath” (Rom. 4:15). The second half of Paul’s...
Jun 2, 2011 · Since the law does not have a role in salvation, what is its purpose? The purpose was to make sin sinful and to show how God must penalize sin in Christ. Imperfect obedience to the law brings God’s wrath on us. All the law does is demonstrate our sinfulness before God.
15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression. 16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham.
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What is Wrath in the Bible?
The law worketh wrath--wrath in us to God; it irritates and provokes that carnal mind which is enmity to God, as the damming up of a stream makes it swell--wrath in God against us. It works this, that is, it discovers it, or our breach of the law works it.
