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Rom 3:27. Ποῦ, where) A particle showing the argument to be complete and unanswerable. 1Co 1:20; 1Co 15:55; comp. 2Pe 3:4.-ἡ χαύχησις, boasting) of the Jew, over the Gentiles, towards God, ch. Rom 2:17, etc., Rom 4:2. He may boast, who can say, I am such as [all that] I ought to be, having fully attained to righteousness and life. The Jews sought for that ground for boasting in themselves.-διὰ ποίον νόμου) by what law, supply ἐξεκλείσθη ἡ καύχησις, is boasting excluded; or rather, by what law is the thing [justification] accomplished? A similar ellipsis is found at ch. Rom 4:16, [διὰ τοῦτο ἐχ πίστεως, therefore it is accomplished of or by faith].-οὐχὶ, nay) Although a man, according to the law, might have [i.e., supposing he might have] righteousness and a reward, yet he could not boast before God; comp. Luk 17:10; now as it is, seeing that there is no righteousness to be had by the law, there remains much less room for boasting; and boasting is much more excluded by the law of faith, than by the law of works.-νόμον πίστεως, the law of faith) An appropriate catachresis [change[39] in the application] of the word law. This [justification by faith] is also a law, inasmuch as being of Divine appointment, to which subjection [submission] is due, ch. Rom 10:3. [They have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God].
[39] See Appendix.