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That every mouth may be stopped (hina pān stoma phragēi). Purpose clause with hina and second aorist passive subjunctive of phrassō, old verb to fence in, to block up. See note on 2Co 11:10. Stopping mouths is a difficult business. See note on Tit 1:11 where Paul uses epistomizein (to stop up the mouth) for the same idea. Paul seems here to be speaking directly to Jews (tois en tōi nomōi), the hardest to convince. With the previous proof on that point he covers the whole ground for he made the case against the Gentiles in Rom 1:18-32.
May be brought under the judgement of God (hupodikos genētai tōi theōi). “That all the world (Jew as well as Gentile) may become (genētai) answerable (hupodikos, old forensic word, here only in N.T.) to God (dative case tōi theōi).” Every one is “liable to God,” in God’s court.