<p>3:27&nbsp;<i>Where then is the glorying? It is excluded</i>- The Jewish boasting about obedience to the Mosaic Law of Rom. 2:17. If we are saved by grace, any feelings of superiority are excluded. &ldquo;It is excluded&rdquo; is a mild way of translating the aorist- the sense is that boasting has once for all been cut off, ended, excluded; by the death of Christ, and by that moment when we believed into Christ, and stood declared righteous before the judgment seat of Christ. Paul must refer to boasting in a wrong sense, a boasting in our works and obedience; for he uses the word quite often in his letters of his boasting of God&rsquo;s grace, and of the faithfulness of other brethren which had been inspired by that grace (e.g. 2 Cor. 7:4,14; 8:24; 9:4; 11:10,17).</p><p><i>By what manner of law? Of works?</i>- Boasting in the sense of feeling superior to others hasn&rsquo;t been excluded by law, i.e. it&rsquo;s not that we no longer boast because there&rsquo;s a law that says &lsquo;You shall not boast&rsquo;. It has been cut off by the law or principle of salvation by faith rather than works. This simple reality, that we really are saved, not by works but by faith in God&rsquo;s grace through Jesus, is so powerful that it quite naturally excludes boasting.</p>