SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:33
Y el Dios de paz sea con todos vosotros. Amn.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 15:33
Verse 33. The God of peace be with you] The whole object of the epistle is to establish peace between the believing Jews and Gentiles, and to show them their mutual obligations, and the infinite mercy of God to both; and now he concludes with praying that the God of peace-he from whom it comes, and by whom it is preserved-may be for ever with them. The word Amen, at the end, does not appear to have been written by the apostle: it is wanting in some of the most ancient MSS.
1. IN the preceding chapters the apostle enjoins a very hard, but a very important and necessary, duty-that of bearing with each other, and endeavouring to think and let think, in those religious matters which are confessedly not essential to the salvation of the soul. Most of the disputes among Christians have been concerning non-essential points. Rites and ceremonies, even in the simple religion of Christ, have contributed their part in promoting those animosities by which Christians have been divided. Forms in worship and sacerdotal garments have not been without their influence in this general disturbance. Each side has been ready to take out of the 14th and 15th chapters of this epistle such expressions as seemed suitable to their own case; but few have been found who have taken up the whole. You believe that a person who holds such and such opinions is wrong: pity him and set him right, lovingly, if possible. He believes you to be wrong because you do not hold those points; he must bear with you. Both of you stand precisely on the same ground, and are mutually indebted to mutual forbearance.
2. Beware of contentions in religion, if you dispute concerning any of its doctrines, let it be to find out truth; not to support a preconceived and pre-established opinion. Avoid all polemical heat and rancour; these prove the absence of the religion of Christ. Whatever does not lead you to love God and man more, is most assuredly from beneath. The God of peace is the author of Christianity; and the Prince of peace, the priest and sacrifice of it: therefore love one another, and leave off contention before it be meddled with. On this subject the advice of the pious Mr. Herbert is good:- Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Why should I feel another man's mistakes More than his sickness or his poverty? In love I should; but anger is not love; Nor wisdom neither:-therefore g-e-n-t-l-y m-o-v-e.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 33. Now the God of peace be with you all, Amen .] As God is in this chapter before styled the God of patience, ( Romans 15:5), and the God of hope, ( Romans 15:13), because of his concern in these graces; so he is here styled the God of peace, because of his concern in that peace which is made between him and his people, by the blood of Christ. This peace was first upon his thoughts, which are therefore called thoughts of peace; a council of peace was held between him and his Son upon this head; the scheme of reconciliation was drawn by him in it; he entered into a covenant of peace with Christ, which takes its name from this momentous article of it; he appointed Christ to be the peacemaker, and laid on him the chastisement of our peace; and it pleased him by him to reconcile all things to himself, ( Colossians 1:20). Moreover, he is so called because he is the giver of all true solid conscience peace, the peace of God, which passeth all understanding of natural men; and which when he gives, none can give trouble; and is what he fills his people with in a way of believing, leading their faith to the blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of his Son. He is also the author of happiness and prosperity, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, and likewise of all the peace and concord which is in his churches, and among his saints; so that when the apostle wishes that the God of peace might be with them, he not only prays that the presence of God might be with them; but that they might have fresh views of their interest in peace, made by the blood of Christ; that they might enjoy peace in their own consciences, arising from thence; that they might be possessed of felicity of every kind, and that unity and harmony might subsist among them; that the peace of God might rule in their hearts, and they live in love and peace one with another, laying aside all their differences as Jews and Gentiles, about the rites and ceremonies of the law of Moses; to which the apostle may have a particular respect in this concluding wish of his, and here indeed properly the epistle ends; the following chapter being as a sort of postscript, filled up with salutations and recommendations of particular persons; wherefore the word Amen is placed here, though it is wanting in the Alexandrian copy.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 30-33 - Let us learn to value the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous How careful should we be, lest we forfeit our interest in the love an prayers of God's praying people! If we have experienced the Spirit' love, let us not be wanting in this office of kindness for others Those that would prevail in prayer, must strive in prayer. Those wh beg the prayers of others, must not neglect to pray for themselves. An though Christ knows our state and wants perfectly, he will know the from us. As God must be sought, for restraining the ill-will of ou enemies, so also for preserving and increasing the good-will of ou friends. All our joy depends upon the will of God. Let us be earnest in prayer with and for each other, that for Christ's sake, and by the love of the Holy Spirit, great blessings may come upon the souls of Christians, and the labours of ministers __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
ο 3588 T-NSM δε 1161 CONJ θεος 2316 N-NSM της 3588 T-GSF ειρηνης 1515 N-GSF μετα 3326 PREP παντων 3956 A-GPM υμων 5216 P-2GP αμην 281 HEB
Robertson's NT Word Studies
15:33 {The God of peace} (ho qeos tes eirenes). One of the characteristics of God that Paul often mentions in benedictions (#1Th 5:23; 2Th 3:16; 2Co 13:11; Php 4:9; Ro 16:20). Because of the "amen" here some scholars would make this the close of the epistle and make chapter 16 a separate epistle to the Ephesians. But the MSS. are against it. There is nothing strange at all in Paul's having so many friends in Rome though he had not yet been there himself. Rome was the center of the world's life as Paul realized (#1:15). All men sooner or later hoped to see Rome.
