Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Attained (katelaben). Second aorist active indicative of katalambanw, old verb, to grasp, to seize, to overtake (carrying out the figure in diwkw (to pursue). It was a curious paradox.
Which is of faith (thn ek pistewv). As Paul has repeatedly shown, the only way to get the God-kind of righteousness.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 9:30:
Romans 4:1
Romans 10:2
Romans 10:20
Romans 11:7
Philippians 3:12
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