ANALYSIS.

This section contains the development of the first two of the apostle's arguments in favour of the position that those who are in Christ Jesus shall never be condemned. The immediate reason is assigned in the second verse, they are delivered from the law. For in view of the insufii- ciency of the law, God sent forth his Son as a sacrifice for sin, v. 3, and thus secured the justification of all believers, v. 4. Being thus delivered from the law, they walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, and this possession of the Spirit is incipient salvation : because the carnal mind, which, of course, all who are in the flesh possess, is death ; whereas a mind under the government of the Spirit is life and peace. Such is the very nature of the case. Holiness is salvation, vs. 5 — 7. The reason that death is the necessary consequence of being carnally minded, is the essential opposition between such a state of mind and God. Hence, those w)xo have this state of mind are the objects of the divine displea- sure, vs. 7, 8. As, however, believers are not under the government of the flesh, but of the Spirit, their salvation is secured even to the resur- rection of the body. For if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in them, he shall also quicken their mortal bodies, vs. 9—11.