We shalt be saved - Sanctified and glorified. If - As sure as so the word frequently signifies particularly in this and the eighth chapter. But wrath in God is not a human passion nor is love, as it is in God.Therefore the inspired writers ascribe both the one and the other to God only in an analogical sense. ![]() But is there then wrath in God? Is not wrath a human passion? And how can this human passion be in God? We may answer this by another question: Is not love a human passion? And how can this human passion be in God? But to answer directly: wrath in man, and so love in man, is a human passion. We shall be saved from wrath through him - That is, from all the effects of the wrath of God. While we were sinners - So far from being good, that we were not even just.īy his blood - By his bloodshedding. Perhaps - one - would - even - dare to die - Every word increases the strangeness of the thing, and declares even this to be something great and unusual.īut God recommendeth - A most elegant expression.Those are wont to be recommended to us, who were before either unknown to, or alienated from, us. It does not appear that this expression, of dying for any one, has any other signification than that of rescuing the life of another by laying down our own.Ī just man - One who gives to all what is strictly their due The good man - One who is eminently holy full of love, of compassion, kindness, mildness, of every heavenly and amiable temper. Christ died for the ungodly - Not only to set them a pattern, or to procure them power to follow it. How can we now doubt of God's love? For when we were without strength - Either to think, will, or do anything good.In due time - Neither too soon nor too late but in that very point of time which the wisdom of God knew to be more proper than any other. By the Holy Ghost - The efficient cause of all these present blessings, and the earnest of those to come. We glory in this our hope, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts - The divine conviction of God's love to us, and that love to God which is both the earnest and the beginning of heaven. Hope shameth us not - That is, gives us the highest glorying. It is therefore with great propriety that the apostle so often mentions the blessings arising from this very thing.Īnd patience works more experience of the sincerity of our grace, and of God's power and faithfulness. The Jews objected to the persecuted state of the Christians as inconsistent with the people of the Messiah. We glory in tribulations also - Which we are so far from esteeming a mark of God's displeasure, that we receive them as tokens of his fatherly love, whereby we are prepared for a more exalted happiness. ![]() These are the fruits of justifying faith: where these are not, that faith is not. We have peace, hope, love, and power over sin, the sum of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth chapters. ![]() We have peace with God - Being enemies to God no longer, Romans 5:10 neither fearing his wrath, Romans 5:9. Being justified by faith - This is the sum of the preceding chapters.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |