ROMANS CHAPTER 5 ROMANS 5:1 Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, ROMANS 5:2 we glory in our hopes, ROMANS 5:3 and in present afflictions, ROMANS 5:6 from the best experience of God's love, looking with more assurance for final salvation. ROMANS 5:11 we glory in God also, to whom we are... [ Continue Reading ]
We have not only reconciliation with God by Jesus Christ, but also by faith in him we are admitted to his presence, his grace and favour. One may be reconciled to his prince, and yet not to be brought into his presence: witness Absalom, &c. See EPHESIANS 2:18, EPHESIANS 3:12 1 PETER 3:18. THIS GRACE... [ Continue Reading ]
WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO; as old soldiers do in their scars of honour: see GALATIANS 6:17 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9. Believers do not only glory in their future happiness, but in their present sufferings and afflictions: yet not so much in affliction itself, as in the issue and fruitful effects thereo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PATIENCE, EXPERIENCE; viz. of God's sustentation and care of us, and of his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, PSALMS 91:15 ISAIAH 43:2 2 CORINTHIANS 1:4,5; as also of our own sincerity, and strength to endure and persevere, MATTHEW 13:21. AND EXPERIENCE, HOPE; i.e. of the glory of God, as... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HOPE MAKETH NOT ASHAMED; it doth not disappoint or deceive us. Frustrated hopes fill men with shame and confusion, JOB 6:19,20. This passage seems to be taken out of PSALMS 22:5. BECAUSE, &C.; this is either rendered as the reason of all that went before; Therefore the justified by faith have pe... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT STRENGTH; utterly unable to help or redeem ourselves. IN DUE TIME; some read it, according to the time, and refer this clause to the foregoing words, making this to be the sense: When we were weak in time past, or in the time of the law, before grace appeared, then Christ died, &c. Others ra... [ Continue Reading ]
He amplifies the love of Christ in dying for the ungodly, and shows that it is unparalleled and without example. By A GOOD MAN you must understand one that is very kind and bountiful, or one that is very useful and profitable; that is, a public and common good. Instances may be given of those that h... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US; i.e. he declareth or confirmeth it by this, as a most certain sign, he makes it most conspicuous or illustrious: see 1 THESSALONIANS 3:16 1 JOHN 4:9,10. IN THAT, WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US; i.e. in a state of sin, and under the guilt and power of... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle's arguing is cogent, for it is more to justify and reconcile sinners, than to save them being justified; Christ therefore having done the former, he will much more do the latter. BY HIS BLOOD; i.e. by faith in his blood or sufferings. FROM WRATH; the Greek reads it with an article, from... [ Continue Reading ]
WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD; put into a capacity of reconciliation, God being by Christ's death made reconcilable, and also actually reconciled, when we believe, through the merits of the death of Christ. WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE; i.e. by the resurrection to life. Salvation is ascribed to the res... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT ONLY SO, &C.: q.d. We do not only rejoice in the hope of glory, and in tribulation, of which he had spoken, ROMANS 5:2,3, (all that fell in between being a long parenthesis), but we rejoice and glory in God himself, who is become our God and merciful Father in Jesus Christ. BY WHOM WE HAVE N... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; From this verse to the end of the chapter, the apostle makes a large comparison between the first and Second Adam, which he joins to what he had said by the causal particle _wherefore:_ q.d. Seeing things are as I have already said, it is evident, that what was lost by Adam is restored by Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR UNTIL THE LAW SIN WAS IN THE WORLD: q.d. It appears that all have sinned, because sin was always in the world, not only after the law was given by Moses, but also before, even from the beginning of the world till that time. BUT SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHEN THERE IS NO LAW: q.d. It appears there was a... [ Continue Reading ]
He proceeds to prove his assertion in the foregoing verse, that sin was in the world before the law, because DEATH, which is the wages of sin, DID REIGN, and had power over all mankind, FROM ADAM TO MOSES, which was about two thousand five hundred years. EVEN OVER THEM THAT HAD NOT SINNED AFTER THE... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOT AS THE OFFENCE, SO ALSO IS THE FREE GIFT: q.d. But yet the resemblance betwixt the first and Second Adam is not so exact as to admit of no difference; differences there are, but they are to great advantage on Christ's part: e.g. Compare Adam's sin and Christ's obedience, in respect of their... [ Continue Reading ]
q.d. As there is a difference between Adam and Christ in respect of their persons, so also in respect of their acts, and the extent thereof; for one sin of Adam did condemn us; the mischief arose from one offence; but the free gift and grace of Christ doth absolve us not only from that one fault, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
Here he shows the difference in respect of the effects and consequents of their acts. If by means of one man and his one offence death had power over all mankind, then much more shall the grace and gift of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ alone, obtain eternal life for all that have received... [ Continue Reading ]
Here, after a long parenthesis, the apostle returns to what he had begun to say in ROMANS 5:12; and now he makes the comparison full in both members, which there, by reason of intervening matter, was left imperfect, as I before hinted. JUDGMENT; guilt, which exposeth to judgment. CAME UPON ALL MEN;... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE MAN S; i.e. Adam s: see the notes on ROMANS 5:12. MANY; i.e. all, as before; many is here opposed to one, or a few; the meaning is: Though Adam was but one, yet he infected many others, his sin rested not in his own person. WERE MADE SINNERS; brought into a state of sin. This is more than when a... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; Here he shows the reason why the law was given; although (as it is in ROMANS 5:13) before that time sin was in the world, it was THAT THE OFFENCE MIGHT ABOUND; either strictly, the offence of that one man, or rather largely, the offence of every man. The particle ina (rendered _that_), is to... [ Continue Reading ]
Before he ascribed dominion and reign to death, now to sin; the reason is evident, because death indeed reigneth by sin. Before also he had made the comparison between Adam and Christ, here it is between sin and grace, the power of one and of the other. The sum is, that as sin hath prevailed over al... [ Continue Reading ]