Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
A corrector of the foolish (paideuthn afronwn). Old word (from paideuw) for instructor, in Plato, and probably so here, though corrector or chastiser in Hebrews 12:9 (the only N.T. instances). See Luke 23:16. Late inscriptions give it as instructor (Preisigke). Afronwn is a hard word for Gentiles, but it is the Jewish standpoint that Paul gives. Each termed the other "dogs."
Of babes (nhpiwn). Novitiates or proselytes to Judaism just as in Galatians 4:1. Paul used it of those not of legal age.
The form (thn morfwsin). Rare word only in Theophrastus and Paul (here and II Timothy 3:5). Pallis regards it as a Stoical term for education. Lightfoot considers the morfwsiv as "the rough-sketch, the pencilling of the morfh," the outline or framework, and in II Timothy 3:5 "the outline without the substance." This is Paul's picture of the Jew as he sees himself drawn with consummate skill and subtle irony.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 2:20:
1 Timothy 1:19
2 Timothy 3:5
Hebrews 12:9
James 3:14
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