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Rom 4:14. Εἰ, if) The promise and faith complete the whole: and we ought not to add the law, as if it were something homogeneous.-οἱ ἐκ νόμου, those who are of the law) This phrase recurs in a milder sense in Rom 4:16.-κεκένωται-κατήργηται-made void-and of no effect), words synonymous but not interchangeable. Comp. Gal 3:17; Gal 3:15; the word antithetic to these is sure [βεβάιαν], Rom 4:16. Faith receives [Rom 4:11] blessings in all their fulness, it is therefore said, on the opposite side, to be made void, to be of no effect.-πίστις-ἐπαγγελία, faith-the promise) words correlative: and they are appropriately put in retrograde order [comp. Rom 4:13] in an argument like the present, wherein is shown the absurdity which would flow from from the opposite theory [by the reductio, or argumentum ad absurdum].