ὁ γὰρ� then enforces the completeness of this result:= he that dies (cf. Moulton, p. 114) is acquitted of his sin for which he is put to death—he has paid the penalty and is free from further effects. This is not a merely general statement. As Romans 6:8 shows, the death here is a sharing of Christ’s death: it is the voluntary self-surrender of man to the penalty of his sin, and involves penitential faith. Consequently it receives from GOD forgiveness, or acquittal from his sin; and sin has no more dominion over him. cf. Moberly, Atonement and Personality, pp. 39 f.

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