translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ROM

label: NET study note

text: The one who raised Jesus from the dead refers to God (also in the following clause).


text: This remark is parenthetical to Paul’s argument.


text: He refers to God here; Paul has not specifically identified him for the sake of rhetorical power (for by leaving the subject slightly ambiguous, he draws his audience into seeing God’s hand in places where he is not explicitly mentioned).


text: An allusion to Isa 50:8 where the reference is singular; Paul applies this to all believers (“God’s elect ” is plural here).


text: A quotation from Ps 44:22 .