Origen Commentary on John Book II " If it did not overtake it, it must first have pursued it, and that the darkness did pursue the light is clear from what the Saviour suffered, and those also who received His teachings, His own children, when darkness was doing what it could against the sons of light and was minded to drive light away from men. But since, if God be for us,[85]
Verse 31. _WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS?_] What conclusion should we draw from the above premises? From all that was already laid down in the preceding chapters, but especially in the prece...
WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY ... - What fairly follows from the facts stated? or what conclusion shall we draw in regard to the power of the Christian religion to support us in our trials from the considera...
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 CHRISTIAN ASSURANCE. Romans 8:28. One thing we do know, that all goes well for those that love God including their worst sufferings (Romans 8:18; cf. Romans 5:3)....
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? The very God who did not spare his own Son but who delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give...
WHAT, &C. See Romans 3:6. TO. App-104. BE. _is_. CAN BE. _is_. AGAINST. App-104....
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
_What shall we then say_, &c. St Paul now applies the whole previous facts and reasons to the final proof of the Safety of the children of God. He seems to refer not only to the former part of this ch...
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...
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31–39. The confidence inspired by this evidence of the love of Christ and GOD. The love which is the ground of the whole relation of GOD to man is shown in its intensity (31), and its power as reveale...
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_TEXT_ Romans 8:31-39. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also w...
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? As Bengel says, with his own unrivaled terseness, 'We can no further go, thi...
__ 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...
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...
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...
(31-39) Now follows the sublime and triumphant conclusion from the foregoing — expressed with passionate energy and with the most intense consciousness of the reality of a Christian belief in penetrat...
CHAPTER 19 THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN THE SAINTS: THEIR PRESENT AND ETERNAL WELFARE IN THE LOVE OF Romans 8:26 IN the last paragraph the music of this glorious didactic prophecy passed, in some solemn...
Conclusion of the argument: the Apostle glories in the assurance of God's eternal and unchangeable love in Jesus Christ. οἴδαμεν δὲ = further, we know: in a sense this is one ground more for believing...
τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν πρὸς ταῦτα; the idea underlying all that precedes is that of the suffering to be endured by those who would share Christ's glory (Romans 8:17). The Apostle has disparaged the suffering...
NO SEPARATION FROM CHRIST'S LOVE Romans 8:31 This is the close of the Apostle's argument. He has shown that believers are dear to God because they are in Christ; that their every need has been antici...
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...
(26) What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? (26) Ninethly, we have no reason to fear that the Lord will not give us whatever is profitable for us, seeing...
_What shall we then say to these things? That is, though we live amidst temptations and afflictions in this life, we need not fear as long as we are faithful in the service of God, under his protectio...
TWENTIETH PASSAGE (8:31-39). HYMN OF THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. This passage is a conclusion. The _then_ of Romans 8:31 indicates this. This conclusion is directly connected with the previous teachin...
_ VV._ 31 and 32 contain a question of an entirely general character; Romans 8:33-37 enumerate the different kinds of adversaries; Romans 8:38-39 are as it were the shout of victory on the battle-fiel...
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...
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (32) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all...
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...
31._What then_, _etc. _The subject discussed having been sufficiently proved, he now breaks out into exclamations, by which he sets forth the magnanimity with which the faithful ought to be furnished...
"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...
WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? C, Either to these afflictions, shall we murmur and repine at them? no, since they work together for our good, and are not to be compared with our future glory,...
What shall we then say to these things? If God _be_ for us, who _can be_ against us? Ver. 31. _What shall we say then?_] _q.d._ Predestination, vocation, justification, glorification? What things be...
_What shall we then say to these things_ Related in the third, fifth, and eighth Chapter s, or conclude upon this review? Surely we may courageously defy all our enemies, and say, _If God_ Who hath al...
TO THESE THINGS; in view of the above-mentioned truths. IF GOD BE FOR US; if he is our friend, has led us to believe on his Son, and thus showed that he has determined to save us, and to cause all th...
The assurance of God's unchangeable love in Christ Jesus:...
WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?...
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...
God and a Christian = a majority Who could be against us?...
WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO IS AGAINST US? "WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS?" -'In face of all this, what is there left to say' (Phi) 'What answer can the hesi...
28-31 That is good for the saints which does their souls good. Every providence tends to the spiritual good of those that love God; in breaking them off from sin, bringing them nearer to God, weaning...
WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? Some refer this question to what is said in the verses immediately preceding: others, to what he had said, ROMANS 8:28; and others go higher, and refer it to al...
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? [What conclusion, then, are we warranted in drawing from this definite and eternal purpose of God? If he be thus for us, ar...
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THE BELIEVER CAN REST IN TOTAL ASSURANCE BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSES OUT FROM BEGINNING TO END. HE CAN THEREFORE REST IN THE CERTAINTY OF HIS LOVE WHATEVER BEFALLS (8:28-39). Now...
‘What then shall we say to these things? If God for us, who against us?' Here we have another typical Pauline question, ‘what then shall we say?' But this time it refers ‘to these things'. The previou...
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...
Romans 8:28-39. The _third_ ground of encouragement; the Christian has nothing to fear, for nothing can separate him from the love of God (see analysis above)....
Romans 8:31. WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY? In chaps. Romans 3:5; Romans 4:1; Romans 7:7; Roman
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...
FOR THESE THINGS (προς ταυτα). From Romans 8:12 on Paul has made a triumphant presentation of the reasons for the certainty of final sanctification of the sons of God. He has reached the climax with...
Romans 8:31 There are Three Stages in this Challenge of Faith. I. Who shall our accuser be? Nothing will stop the accuser's mouth, but the one mighty act of God's sovereign grace by which He acquits...
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....
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Our weaknesses, our insufficiencies, our inabilities: the Spirit of God comes in to be a helper to the children of God. Romans 8:26....
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._...
Romans 8:26. _Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:_ Oh, how many these are! Want of memory, want of faith, want of earnestness, ignorance, pride, deadness, coldness of heart, these are s...
Romans 8:28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con...
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...
FACED WITH ALL THIS, WHAT CAN WE SAY? He has shown us God's love and mercy, and the future glory of God's people. IF GOD Is FOR US? No doubt about it! God is for us (who believe in him). WHO CAN BE AG...
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 8:29.—Foreknowledge communicates the strength of grace to those to whom it refers. Romans 8:30. CALLED.—The cause of it God’s love, the act of calling; the effect, bestowal o...
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 4:4; 1 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 17:45; Deuteronomy 33:29; Ge
SOME THINGS WE KNOW Romans 8:26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In the realms of the humanly unknowable and unknown, the Word of God is sure and steadfast. We can say, "I know this," or, "I know that," when God...
What shall we say then to these things — Related in the third, fifth, and eighth chapters? As if he had said, We cannot go, think, or wish anything farther. If God be for us — Here follow four periods...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS? that is, to the forenamed truths and doctrines, to the forementioned privileges and benefits, what comfort doth arise from them? How shall we live up answerable unto...