Robertson Word Pictures - Romans 11:33 - 11:33

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Robertson Word Pictures - Romans 11:33 - 11:33


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O the depth (O bathos). Exclamation with omega and the nominative case of bathos (see note on 2Co 8:2; Rom 8:39). Paul’s argument concerning God’s elective grace and goodness has carried him to the heights and now he pauses on the edge of the precipice as he contemplates God’s wisdom and knowledge, fully conscious of his inability to sound the bottom with the plummet of human reason and words.

Unsearchable (anexeraunēta). Double compound (a privative and ex) verbal adjective of ereunaō (old spelling ̇eu̇), late and rare word (lxx, Dio Cassius, Heraclitus), only here in N.T. Some of God’s wisdom can be known (Rom 1:20.), but not all.

Past tracing out (anexichniastoi). Another verbal adjective from a privative and exichniazō, to trace out by tracks (ichnos Rom 4:12). Late word in Job (Job 5:9; Job 9:10; Job 34:24) from which use Paul obtained it here and Eph 3:8 (only N.T. examples). Also in ecclesiastical writers. Some of God’s tracks he has left plain to us, but others are beyond us.