Such being the case, we can only ascribe it to Tischendorf"s provoking predilection for the Sinaït., that he adopts the first reading in his eighth edition. For as the body is the organ of the soul in this world, so it must participate in the felicity or punishment that shall follow, whether the whole man has remained under the law, or has been received into the covenant of grace. In fact, by this mode of expression the apostle would ascribe the divine operation of raising from the dead (John 5:21) to the Holy Spirit, which would imply His power of free causation as well as divinity. Yet, if He does not soon compliment me with a translation, this tenement will no longer be worth repairing. 1 Corinthians 15:42-58; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. He that did, in fact, restore him to life, will also restore you. The Jews frequently express the resurrection by תחיית המתים, "the quickening of the dead" some distinguishF25Vid. First, to reason that it may be so in regard of the possibility. Through, or, ‘on account of,’ his Spirit that dwell-eth in you. 8. ζωοποιήσει] Not ἐγερεῖ, but the correlate of ζωή, Romans 8:10 (comp. The former appellation, as a proper name, belongs to the person; the latter, as an appellative, belongs to the office.— ζωοποιήσει, shall quicken [make alive]) comp. The Spirit himself helps our weakness and is our prayer-partner. It is no way opposite or repugnant to this. 8. At the same time, we are not there yet. Sadly, such cruel realities persist today in many parts of the world, where families crushed by poverty abandon infants they cannot afford to raise, or sell children into the slavery of child labor or child prostitution. As he sat, he heard children playing a game and they called out to each other these words: “Take up and read! ‘On account of the indwelling of the Spirit,' expressing the same general idea under another form. The entire course of thought is summed up in this thrice repeated because of. Will quicken even your mortal bodies. It provides for the reunion of body and soul. "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". Fathers), in Syria (Peshito), and in the Byzantine Church (K L P, Mnn. “It is God who worketh in us both the willing and the doing of His good pleasure.” The law demanded righteousness from a man whose nature was utterly corrupt and perverted, and which could only bring forth corrupt fruit. (1) The gospel establishes the true and sovereign principle of rule over the bodily passions and powers. "Commentary on Romans 8:11". Click the Bible for the all new StudyLight.org!! Scripture: Romans 8:1-11 8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the resurrection will not only change the fact of death into that of life, but it will transform the nature of the body, which from being mortal will become incorruptible (1 Corinthians 15:43-44). Easter hope.—But if surprise and triumph burst out in every hymn and culminate in the great Eucharist which we celebrate to-day, we must not forget the hope. (2) The indwelling Spirit gives new possession of the body and its powers. 2. Dwelling may relate either to a man in his house (1 John 3:24) or of God in His temple (1 Corinthians 6:16). If the latter reading be adopted, this clause would then answer to the phrase, on account of righteousness, in the preceding verse. In much more positive cases … Continue reading "Commentary on Romans 8:12-17" A beautiful thing! Romans 5:3-5).Romans 8:29 f. This assurance rests on God's manifest purpose toward them—a "purpose" disclosed in five successive steps: "foreknowledge, pre-ordination, call, justification, glorification." He's sending this letter ahead of him as a way of introducing himself… and of sharing lots (and we mean lots) of theological goodies. What unspeakable relief it is to the bewildered, troubled soul, oppressed with a sense of his own unworthiness, and distressed because of frequent failures to live up to his own highest resolves, when he learns that God sees him in Christ Jesus, and as thus seen he is free from all condemnation. λ.] And so indeed it is, and that according to a threefold influence--first, of merit; secondly, of actual efficacy; and, thirdly, of example. 3. Vine's Epistle to the Romans, published in 1957 by Zondervon was really helpful as was the Introductory Lectures, Volume 2-Paul's Epistles by William Kelly--Lectures delivered in 1869 and reprinted by Believer's Bookshelf in 1970; Synopsis Having been conjoined with Him in His death, we are, and also will be, conjoined with Him in His resurrection (Romans 6:5), both now (Romans 8:10; John 5:24; Galatians 2:20) and in eternity (Romans 8:11; John 5:28-29). The δέ, now, denotes the progress of the life which, after penetrating the spirit, takes hold even of the body. The justification of believers involves a fulfilling of the law; its demands are not set aside, Romans 8:4. See the analogous passage, 2 Corinthians 4:14. This argument is valid, and, other things being equal, is a good reason for retaining the common text. This is not a Spirit of bondage, of legality, filling us with fear and dread, but the Spirit of adoption, of son-acknowledgment, whereby we instinctively lift our hearts to God in the cry of the conscious child, “Abba, Father.” Adoption is to be distinguished from new birth. There can be no safety, no holiness, and no happiness to those who are out of Christ. According to the invariable representation of the N. T. God is the raiser of Jesus (Romans 4:24, Romans 8:11; Acts 2:24; Acts 2:31 ff. (according to which the indwelling of the spirit is the ground on which God raises our mortal bodies to undying life) or the genit. Thus the righteousness of the law, the good in practice that the law required, is actually produced in the man who walks not after the flesh, not as under the power of the old nature, but after the Spirit, or in subjection to the Spirit, who has come to take possession of us for Christ. The Spirit of God, which is in us, He does certify and assure us hereof--namely, by these gracious effects of His wrought in our souls; while He raises us from the death of sin, He will also raise us from the death of the grave. BibliographyClarke, Adam. ], Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, "shall give life also to your mortal bodies", Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Hodge's Commentary on Romans, Ephesians and First Corintians. p. 745,746. between תקומה "the resurrection" of the dead, which is common to the wicked, and תחיית, "the quickening" of them, peculiar to the righteous: though, it is observed, this distinction does not always hold: however, this act of quickening seems here designed to express the peculiar blessing, of the saints; for though the wicked shall be raised from the dead, yet they will not rise with the saints, nor by virtue of union to Christ, nor to an eternal life of joy and happiness; in this sense the saints only will be quickened, "by the Spirit"; not as an instrument, but as a coefficient cause with the Father and Son: or "because of the Spirit that dwelleth in you", the bodies of the saints are the temples of the Holy Ghost, they are sanctified by him, where he continues to dwell by virtue of union to Christ, and in consequence of it will quicken them at the last day; so the Jews say, that the Holy Ghost brings to the resurrection of the deadF26Misn. dwelleth = indwelleth. ", [Note: Gerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology, p169. The shadow which fell on the soul of Adam fell through his senses over all the world. EasyEnglish is a system of simple English designed by Wycliffe Associates (UK). This verse constitutes a powerful argument for the physical resurrection of believers. In itself considered, therefore, moral purity is essentially connected with happiness, as cause and effect. 11.] A Bible Study in EasyEnglish (2800 word vocabulary) on the Book of Romans. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 11. Jesus Christ, He is thus risen. Just as your house reaches a period when it is not worth repairing, and, consequently, you no longer restore the breaches; but in that case you soon evacuate it for a new edifice which you have built; so, when the Holy Ghost ceases to heal my body, I will begin to shout louder than ever, concluding that the house is no longer worth repairing, and will soon be evacuated for the occupancy of the “house not made with hands, but eternal and in the heavens” (2 Corinthians 5:1). They are free from the law which condemned them to death, Romans 8:2-4. 9. There was a manifest degeneracy of the bodily life; and that was equivalent to the degeneracy of the world, and of all things with which he had to do. A glorious operation, the Spirit raised up Jesus from the dead. Develops the thought implied in 10 that the body, too, even now is quickened by the new life; it has become a ὅπλον δικαιοσύνης, Romans 6:13. τὸ πν. (L. O. The argument of the apostle is, that the same Spirit which was in Christ, and raised him from the dead dwells in us, even in our bodies (1 Corinthians 6:19), and will assuredly raise us up. He is "God's own Son," i.e. "Commentary on Romans 8:11". Him that raised up Jesus from the dead, etc. Verse Concepts. In the ancient Roman world, unwanted children were routinely abandoned or sold into slavery. He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies. On the contrary, the Divine Spirit was, and is a wellspring within of joy and peace, to all who are sanctified. Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you. "Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament". and cannot He then restore it from the dust? A gracious possession, and special inhabitation; He dwelleth in us, in our hearts by his gifts and graces, in our bodies as his living temples, which proves him to be really God, for none but a God possessess a temple; and also to be a distinct person, not an energy or operation, for none but a person can be said to inhabit or dwell; and should teach us to take heed of defiling our bodies by any uncleanness, which are or ought to be the temples of the Holy Ghost: for if any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy. Those who are destitute of his influences, are not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be; for no man can call Jesus Lord, that is, can really recognize his authority, but by the Holy Ghost, Romans 8:5-8. In verses Romans 8:28-34 we have “God for us.” In verses Romans 8:35-39, “No separation.” We have a glorious chain of five links in verses Romans 8:29-30 reaching from Eternity in the past to Eternity in the future-foreknown, predestinated, called, justified, glorified! “The carnal mind (or, mind of the flesh) is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be” (ver. Let us consider what our bodies were made of and fetched out of at first, and then it will be no difficulty at all. ‘Even’ the body which here succumbs to the effects of sin, shall be quickened; the victory of redemption will be complete when this occurs. "Commentary on Romans 8:11". Namely, (1) The future glory shall far outweigh the present sufferings, Romans 8:18-25.—(2) The Holy Ghost supports us, Romans 8:26-27.—(3) Generally, all things must serve for good to those who love God, Romans 8:28-31. By mortal bodies he understands all those things which still remain in us, that are subject to death; for his usual practice is to give this name to the grosser part of us. He that raised up Christ from the dead; where the resurrection of Christians seems to be made an effect, and consequent of the resurrection of Christ. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". "Sermon Bible Commentary". There can be no rational or scriptural hope without holiness, and every tendency to separate the evidence of the divine favor from the evidence of true piety, is anti-Christian and destructive, Romans 8:4-8. By his Spirit that dwelleth in you - Instead of δια του ενοικουντος αυτου πνευματος, because of the Spirit of him who dwelleth in you, DEFG, a great many others, with the Vulgate, Itala, and several of the fathers, have δια το ενοικουν αυτου πνευμα, which gives almost no variety of meaning. He that hath done the one, He is ready also to do the other for us. For that Spirit which has been communicated to them from Jesus Christ, as from the head to the members, and who hath made their bodies His temples on earth, will raise them from the dust, and will perfect His work in them. διὰ τὸ ἐνοικοῦν κ. τ. "Commentary on Romans 8:11". What the law, with all its stern and solemn warnings and threatenings could not accomplish (that is, produce a life of holiness, because of the weakness and unreliability of the flesh), is now realized in the power of the new life by the Spirit. But to the readers’ consciousness of faith it was self-evident from the analogy of what is here said to them with reference to the case of their being already dead at the Parousia; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 2 Corinthians 5:2-4; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. "Mark Dunagan Commentaries on the Bible". And so, as he began with this portion with “no condemnation,” he ends with “no separation.” “I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come (and what is there that is neither present nor to come? Future active indicative of ζωοποιεω zōopoieō late verb from ζωοποιος zōopoios making alive. Therefore it is called emphatically the resurrection of the just, Luke 14:14; and these two are joined together, as belonging one to the other; the children of God, and the children of the resurrection, Luke 20:36. The Triune God is now seen as in action. The apostle does not speak of the lot reserved for the bodies of unbelievers, or of unsanctified believers. See on Romans 8:9. The work is effected by the Spirit dwelling in us. Romans 8:11 Commentary Romans 8:12-13 Commentary Romans 8:12-17 Commentary Romans 8:14-15 Commentary Romans 8:16-17 Commentary Romans 8:18-21 Romans 8:18-19 Commentary Romans 8:20-21 Commentary Romans 8:22-23 Commentary Romans 8:22-25 Commentary Romans 8:24-25 Commentary Romans 8:26-29 Commentary How can n we who died to sin still live in it? 5. See John 5:21; John 5:28-29. Thompson. 10. Romans 8:1-14 English Standard Version (ESV) Life in the Spirit. Romans 8:28. 1. "shall give life also to your mortal bodies"-there is some discussion here concerning what "resurrection" is under consideration. In either case, the reference seems to be to the final resurrection, rather than to any present moral quickening. Their habitual and characteristic state of mind, that state which every man has who is not "in the Spirit," is enmity to God, and consequently is the object of his disapprobation, Romans 8:6, Romans 8:8. In the same way. 1865-1868. Romans 8:18-31. I. "Haldane's Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans and Hebrews". So here (according to the common reading) we are said to be raised up by the Holy Spirit; in John 6:40, Christ says of the believer, "I will raise him up at the last day;" and in 2 Corinthians 4:14, and in many other places, the resurrection of believers is ascribed to God. 1851. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. Romans 8:3 - For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, on StudyLight… They are partakers of that Spirit; which is the author and earnest of eternal life, Romans 8:5-11. This doctrine of the resurrection is more particularly considerable of us in the expression which is here in the text fastened upon it; whilst it is said that “He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies.” And here, again, two things more. BibliographyBengel, Johann Albrecht. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the deal dwell in you. κ. τ. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/sbc/romans-8.html. Romans 8:11. The first preparation for our salvation is found in what the Father has done, namely, in the plan which He has formed, in the election of His people, and His giving them to His Son; in the appointment of the sacrifice, in the transfer of our sins to Him who has suffered, and in respect to the satisfaction He has received. This emancipation is to be considered doubtful and romans 8:11 studylight explains why the natural man is not a responsible creature is. Correct to use the personal pronoun if ye live after the flesh but... 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