Romans 5:11

not only so We shall not only be welcomed then, but we are permitted to feel nowthe bliss of our position.

we … joy Lit. joying; the participle. The meaning is practically the same as in E. V. Grammatically the word perhaps connects with "being reconciled;" q. d., "We shall surely be -saved" then, because we are now admitted not to acquittal only, but to rejoicing confidence of Divine Love," "we are not reconciled only, but rejoicing."

now See on Romans 5:9.

received Ideally, when He died and rose; actually, when we believed (Romans 5:1). The Gr. is an aorist.

the atonement the reconciliation; the cognate noun to the verb in Romans 5:10. According to the explanation there, it here means the grant of "peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ," in virtue of His propitiation. The Gr. noun occurs elsewhere in N. T. only Romans 11:15, and 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.