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Romans 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
ROMANS 8:23 ui`oqesi,an {A} Several witnesses, chiefly Western (î46vid D G 614 itd, g _al_), omit ui`oqesi,an, a word that copyists doubtless found to be both clumsy in the context and dispensable, a...
Verse 23. _AND NOT ONLY THEY, BUT OURSELVES ALSO_] Neither the _Gentiles_ only, but we _Jews_ also, (however we belong to a nation envious of the heathen,) to whom God hath granted the first fruits of...
AND NOT ONLY THEY - Not only the creation in general. “But ourselves also.” Christians. WHICH HAVE THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT - The word used ἀπαρχὴ aparchē denotes properly the first-fruits of...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
THE BIRTH-PANGS OF IMMORTALITY. Romans 8:18. These present sufferings are light beyond comparison, in view of the glory awaiting us at the coming revelation. The destined glory is hidden under a flesh...
For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present age cannot be compared with the glory which is destined to be disclosed to us. The created world awaits with eager expectation the day when those...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
FIRSTFRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. The gifts of the Holy Spirit as the foretaste and pledge of the eternal inheritance. Compare Ephesians 1:14.Hebrews 6:5. See Exodus 23:19;...
_not only they_ The word "_they_" (inserted by our Translators) perhaps indicates that they understood the passage of conscious individual beings; the world of _man_. (See long note on Romans 8:19.) _...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
In the preceding verses the thoughts worked out in 2 Cor. _l.c_[161] have been summarised. In these verses the Apostle includes a wider range of thought, characteristic of Eph. and Col. Man’s present...
ΚΑῚ ΑΥ̓ΤΟῚ. We Christians, though we have the earnest of the Spirit and of freedom, ourselves still find our body in bondage, not yet fully emancipated. ΤῊΝ�. ΠΝ. ἀπ. only here in this connexion; cf....
The interpretation of the character and obligations of human life, under the power of the indwelling Spirit, in relation to creation and to GOD. (12) If then all this is true, that our spirit in its w...
ΑΠΑΡΧΉ (G536) первый плод. Первая доля урожая, которая рассматривается одновременно и как первое проявление и как знак конечного избавления целого (Barrett). _Gen._ аппозиции. Дух Святой рассматривает...
DISCOURSE: 1874 THE STATE OF GOD’S CHILDREN Romans 8:23. _And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the a...
_ROMANS 8:19_.— I must think, that it was quite to the Apostle's purpose in this place to point at the common calamities of mankind. Christians ought not to be uneasy if they are exposed to sufferings...
AND NOT ONLY THEY, BUT OURSELVES ALSO— That this is meant of the Apostles, appears plain from the following reasons: _First, But ourselves also,—even we ourselves,_—are very emphatical expressions, an...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:18-25. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of...
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. AND NOT ONLY...
__ Conciliation-Individual 11 Mortal bodies are such as are dying, in a physical sense. Their vivification cannot refer to the future resurrection, but to the present power of God's Spirit to use an...
8:23 groan (f-19) As Mark 7:34 . adoption, (g-23) See Note, ver. 15....
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
FIRSTFRUITS] cp. Leviticus 23:10; 2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:13. GROAN] cp. 2 Corinthians 5:2.;...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
(18-25) The mention of “suffering” and of “glory” recalls the Apostle to a sense of his own position — what he had to go through, and what was the hope that he had to animate and encourage him. A vivi...
Nor is it only the rest of creation that groans. We Christians, too, though we possess the firstfruits of the Spirit, nevertheless inwardly groan, sighing for the time when our adoption as the sons of...
CHAPTER 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his Inspirer,...
Second testimony to the glorious future. οὐ μόνον δὲ _sc._ ἡ κτίσις not only all creation, but we Christians: we ourselves, τὴν ἀπαρχὴν τοῦ πνεύματος ἔχοντες. τοῦ πνεύματος is gen of apposition: the s...
HOPING FOR THE COMPLETED REDEMPTION Romans 8:18 Creation groans for freedom from the serpent's trail. Like a captive maiden she sighs to be delivered from the curse which sin has brought upon her. Th...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
(22) And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within (d) ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], (e) the redemption of our body...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Redemptionem corporis, i.e. complete happiness, says St. John Chrysostom, p. 119. _Greek: toutesti ten apertismenen doxan._...
“ _And not only only so, but we also,which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we ourselves also groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption_, _the redemption of our body._ ” The connection betw...
NINETEENTH PASSAGE (ROMANS 8:18-30). COMPLETION OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MISERIES OF OUR PRESENT CONDITION. In speaking of the full victory gained by the Spirit of Christ over the...
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manif...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_THE SACRING OF PAIN_ ‘The whole creation … travaileth in pain.’ Romans 8:22 It is held that pain came in with sin; and will go out with sin. This, however, is to be taken with certain reservations...
23._And not only so_, _etc. _There are those who think that the Apostle intended here to exalt the dignity of our future blessedness, and by this proof, because all things look for it with ardent desi...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
AND NOT ONLY THEY, BUT OURSELVES ALSO,.... Not only they Gentiles, but we Jews likewise: WHICH HAVE THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE SPIRIT: meaning either the apostles, who were all Jews, and who most of them...
And not only _they_, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, _to wit_, the redemption of our body. Ver. 23. _...
Rom. 8:23. "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." T...
_And not only they_ The unenlightened and unrenewed part of mankind; _but we ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit_ Because first-fruits signify the best things of their kind, some t...
NOT ONLY THEY; the creatures which unwillingly suffer, or are perverted and abused through the sins of men. BUT OURSELVES ALSO; true Christians, who are born of the Spirit, and have the foretastes of...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
Expectation - What do you expect? Creature - humanity, people of the earth, creation Wait - patience is waiting 20 All creation - animals and man Frustrated - not by our choice By the will of God...
AND NOT ONLY SO, BUT OURSELVES ALSO, WHO HAVE THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, EVEN WE OURSELVES GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES, WAITING FOR OUR ADOPTION, TO WIT, THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY. "AND NOT ONLY SO...
18-25 The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and but for a moment. How vastly different are the sentence o...
The apostle had asserted and concluded, ROMANS 8:18, that there is a future glory to be revealed hereafter in the saints, such as infinitely transcends their sufferings now; and this he had confirmed...
And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. [And not only do w...
Five Books in Reply to Marcion A pledge;[108]...
Romans 8:23 G1161 Not G3756 only G3440 but G235 we G846 also G2532 have G2192 (G5723) firstfruits...
‘And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.' Creation groans,...
THE WHOLE OF CREATION IS GROANING IN EXPECTATION OF ITS REDEMPTION. AND GOD'S PEOPLE ALSO GROAN WITH IT, AS DOES THE SPIRIT OF GOD HIMSELF ON OUR BEHALF (8:18-27). In spite of the division necessarily...
Romans 8:23. AND NOT ONLY SO. Not only is this true, that the whole creation, etc. BUT EVEN WE OURSELVES. There are a number of slight variations in the Greek, but in any case a repetition of ‘oursel...
2. GROUNDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, ATTESTING THE BELIEVER'S SECURITY. The life in the Spirit involves fellowship with Christ in suffering and glory (Romans 8:17). The sufferings are present, while the glory...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
THE FIRST FRUITS (την απαρχην). Old and common metaphor.OF THE SPIRIT (του πνευματος). The genitive of apposition. The Holy Spirit came on the great Pentecost and his blessings continue as seen in...
ADOPTION Literally, placing as sons. See Adoption, (Romans 8:15)....
Romans 8:19 I. The groaning creation. We are surrounded by the evidences of a conflicting existence, a state of being not all evil, certainly; certainly not all of God. All things about us show the wr...
Romans 8:23 Waiting in Hope. I. The unintelligent creatures wait, but not in hope. They travail as in pain with the burden of a future birth, of which they themselves are ignorant. We know what we w...
Romans 8:22 Groans of Unrenewed and Renewed Nature. I. All things bear about them strange tokens of good and evil. Each pictures to us some part of the glory of their Maker, each of our vanity. They...
Romans 8:23 The Aspirations of a Christian Soul. Consider: I. The nature of Christian aspirations. There are two points to be illustrated here. (1) The fact that the firstfruits of the Spirit are gr...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Not those who say they are «the sons of God,» but those who undoubtedly prove that they are, by being led, influe...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is that...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
The words we are about to read follow a passage in which the Apostle describes the conflict of his soul. It is rather singular that it should be so. To catch the contrast, let us just begin at the en...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
Romans 8:15. _For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;_ You did receive it once. You needed it. You were in sin, and it was well for you when sin became bondage to you. It was gr...
Romans 8:18. _For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us._ Paul made «the sufferings of this present time» into a...
Romans 8:19. _For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ The whole creation is in a waiting posture, waiting for the glory yet to be revealed. Rom...
Romans 8:23. _And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body._...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
WE WHO HAVE THE SPIRIT. This is Paul's second reason (_see_ Romans 8:18). This also points to the glorious future! AS THE FIRST OF GOD'S GIFTS. APARCHE - FIRST-PORTION (Jewish term for anything set ap...
_For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ THE EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE The Greek for “expectation” is one of those admirable words which that...
_Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit … groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body._ THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE SPIRIT I. What they include....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:23 Christians already have THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. But they still await the day of their final adoption, when their bodies, fully redeemed, are raised from the dead....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:18 Paul began this major section of the letter (Romans 5:1) by emphasizing the final hope of believers (Rom
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:19. EXPECTATION.—In the original a highly figurative word. Hope stands with head erect, and with eyes fixed towards the point from which the blessing is expected to come. WAI...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:7; 2 Corinthians 5:2; 2 Corinthians 5:5;...
And even we, who have the first — fruits of the Spirit — That is, the Spirit, who is the first — fruits of our inheritance. The adoption — Persons who had been privately adopted among the Romans were...
AND NOT ONLY THEY; that is, all the creatures in this visible creation, join in this, they groan together; they do not some groan, and others sing; some travail in pain, and others in pleasure. But th...