Robertson Word Pictures - Romans 1:29 - 1:29

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Robertson Word Pictures - Romans 1:29 - 1:29


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Being called with (peplērōmenous). Perfect passive participle of the common verb plēroō, state of completion, “filled to the brim with” four vices in the associative instrumental case (adikiāi, unrighteousness as in Rom 1:18, ponēriāi, active wickedness as in Mar 7:22, pleonexiāi, covetousness as in 1Th 2:5; Luk 12:15, kakiāi, maliciousness or inward viciousness of disposition as in 1Co 5:8). Note asyndeton, no connective in the lists in Rom 1:29-31. Dramatic effect. The order of these words varies in the MSS. and porneiāi, fornication, is not genuine here (absent in Aleph A B C).

Full of (mestous). Paul changes from participle to adjective. Old adjective, rare in the N.T., like mestoō, to fill full (only in Act 2:13 in N.T.), stuffed full of (with genitive). Five substantives in the genitive (phthonou, envy, as in Gal 5:21, phonou, murder, and so a paronomasia or combination with phthonou, of like sounding words, eridos, strife, as in 2Co 12:16, kakoēthias, malignity, and here only in N.T. though old word from kakoēthēs and that from kakos and ēthos, a tendency to put a bad construction on things, depravity of heart and malicious disposition.