McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Romans 8:33
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;
Verse 33. This and the two following verses contain a string of questions, most appropriately introduced and most powerfully urged, tending to show the safety of the state of those who have believed t...
WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE - This expression is taken from courts of law, and means, who shall accuse, or condemn, or so charge with crime before the tribunal of God as to cause their condem...
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)....
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...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
LAY ANY THING. bring charges, i.e. call to judicial account. Greek. _enkaleo._ See Acts 19:38. TO THE CHARGE OF. App-104. IT... JUSTIFIETH. Shall God Who justifies (them)?...
_Who shall lay any thing to the charge_ The Gr. word is technical and legal. The legal ideas of accusation, condemnation, acquittal, which have been so prominent through the Epistle, here reappear, in...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
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...
ΚΑΤᾺ ἘΚΛΕΚΤΩ͂Ν Θ. Against men whom GOD has chosen: the bare words give tremendous emphasis. ΘΕῸΣ Ὁ ΔΙΚΑΙΩ͂Ν. In the face of GOD’S acquittal, the condemnation of the world is as nothing; cf. 1 Corinthi...
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...
ΈΓΚΑΛΈΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΓΚΑΛΈΩ (G1458) призывать, выдвигать обвинения против кого-л. в суде (ММ). В риторическом вопросе, на который ожидается отрицательный ответ, ΔΙΚΑΙΏΝ _praes. act. part. о...
DISCOURSE: 1880 PAUL’S CONFIDENCE Romans 8:33. _Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is...
WHO SHALL LAY ANY THING TO THE CHARGE, &C.— Here it is well observed by Mr. Lowth, that these words being read by way of interrogation, as is Romans 8:35 carry a full and clear sense thus: Who shall p...
_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...
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF, [ engkalesei (G1458)] - or, 'bring a charge against' GOD'S ELECT. Here,...
__ 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...
ELECT] i.e. chosen, practically = 'called.' _It is_ GOD] cp. Isaiah 50:8....
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...
WHO SHALL LAY ANY THING ...? — The punctuation and arrangement of these clauses are somewhat difficult. It seems best on the whole to connect together the two clauses at the end of Romans 8:33, and be...
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...
f. The punctuation here is a very difficult problem: see the text and margin of R.V. The reminiscence of Isaiah 50:8 f. in Romans 8:33 makes it more difficult; for it suggests that the normal structur...
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...
(27) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] (p) God that justifieth. (27) A most glorious and comfortable conclusion of the whole second part of this epistle, that is of the tre...
_Who shall lay any thing to the charge of the elect of God? God who justifieth. Others read without an interrogation, it is God who justified us: the sense will scarce be different; for it is the same...
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...
“ _Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth._ ” Paul is not ignorant how many accusers every believer has: conscience, the law, Satan, the accuser of the elect, t...
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...
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...
33._Who shall bring an accusation, etc. _The first and the chief consolation of the godly in adversities, is to be fully persuaded of the paternal kindness of God; for hence arises the certainty of th...
"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...
WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT?.... The elect of God are a certain select number of persons, whom he has so loved, as of his sovereign good will and pleasure, to choose in Christ...
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? _It is_ God that justifieth. Ver. 33. _Who shall lay anything_] This is that confident interrogatory of a good conscience, επερωτημα, 1 Peter 3:2...
_Who shall lay any thing to the charge_ Any matter of guilt, which should bring them into condemnation, or shall bring an accusation against _God's elect_ That is, against true believers, who have so...
The assurance of God's unchangeable love in Christ Jesus:...
WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH....
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...
Who dares to: A. Blame God for our problems? B. Charge God with neglect? abandonment? Job charged not God foolishly. Neither should we. 34 Would you blame Christ? A. He DIED for you. B. He was r...
WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH; "LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT" -if some are against us (Romans 8:31), then certainly they will make accusat...
32-39 All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest fol...
WHO SHALL LAY ANY THING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? Who can implead such, or put in any accusation against them? There is nothing to accuse them of, they are justified; and there is none to accuse t...
Romans 8:33 Who G5101 bring G1458 (G5692) charge G2596 Gods G2316 elect G1588 God G2316 justifies G1344 ...
‘Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies.' In Romans 8:32 Paul's language was sacrificial, now it becomes legal. What possible charge can be laid against God's true...
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...
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...
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 8:33. WHO SHALL BRING ANY CHARGE AGAINST. The term used is a legal one, and suggests an accusation resulting in condemnation. God's elect. Those referred to throughout, especially in Romans 8:2...
Romans 8:33-35. The main point open to discussion is respecting the punctuation of these verses. (1.) The E. V. gives answers as well as questions in Romans 8:33-34. (2.) Others find two questions in...
WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? (τις εγκαλεσε κατα εκλεκτων θεου?). Future active indicative of εγκαλεω, old verb, to come forward as accuser (forensic term) in case in court, t...
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...
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 8:18. _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 8:28. 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...
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 8:26. _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....
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...
WHO WILL ACCUSE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. Neither God nor Christ will do this, and Satan cannot, since we are pronounced "Not Guilty." This shows how _secure_ we are in God's love!!! But note we are still...
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
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:33 Satan, their enemies, or even their own consciences may bring charges against GOD’S ELECT. But God declares them justified. ⇐
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:34.—Justification opposed to accusation, defence and advocacy to condemnation. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Romans 8:33_ Christ’s intercessory work. CHRISTIAN FAIT...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:36. WE ARE BEING KILLED.—To express the intensely present. Romans 8:37.—Are triumphantly victorious. Have superabundant strength. Romans 8:38. FOR I AM PERSUADED, ETC.—To b...
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 Peter 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Galatians 3:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah
Shall lay - to the charge [ε γ κ α λ ε σ ε ι]. Only here by Paul. Frequent in Acts. See Romans 19:38; Romans 23:28; Romans 26:2. Lit., "to call something in one." Hence call to account; bring a charge...
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...
God's elect — The above — cited author observes, that long before the coming of Christ the heathen world revolted from the true God, and were therefore reprobated, or rejected. But the nation of the...
Observe here, 1. The apostle's confident and daring challenge: WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? Where note, The universality of the challenge: It is universal in. double respect:...