| now live. Emphasis on viv now, since the beginning of my Christian life, with an implied contrast with the life in the flesh before he was crucified with Christ. Zhen, the I was the centre and impulse of life. Now, it is no longer J, but Christ in me.
By the faith of the Son of God (ev ricte tH Tod viod Tov Geov). Better, as Rev., in faith, the faith which ts in the Son of God. Thus the defining and explicative force of tke article tT after wiéote: is brought out. Jn faith is better than by faith, although év is sometimes used instrumentally. In corresponds better with év capi in the flesh. It exhibits faith as the element in which the new life is lived.
And gave himself («al rapaddvtos éavtov). Kal and has an explanatory force: loved me, and, as a proof of his love, gave himself. For mapaddvros gave, see on was delivered, Rom. iv. 25.
‘For God more bounteous was himself to give To make man able to uplift himself, Than if he only of himself had pardoned.” Dante, Paradiso, vii. 115-117.
* See International Commentary on Philippians and Philemon, Excursus on ‘‘ Paul’s Conception of Righteousness by Faith,’ p. 128 ff.
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For me (i7ép euod). See on for the ungodly, Rom. v. 6.
21. Frustrate (a@ero). Annul or invalidate. Comp. Micevueg; Lt Cor. 1.19; Gal. iii, 15:
The grace of God (rv yapw tod Oeod). Xapis is, pri- marily, that which gives joy (yapa). Its higher, Christian meaning is based on the emphasis of freeness in a gift or favour. It is the free, spontaneous, absolute loving-kindness of God toward men. Hence often in contrast with the ideas of debt, law, works, sin. Sometimes for the gift of grace, the benefaction, as 1 Cor. xvi. 8; 2 Cor. viii. 6,19; 1 Pet. i. 10, 13. So here: the gracious gift of God in the offering of Christ.
Is dead (azé@avev). More correctly, died; pointing to the historical incident.
In vain (dwpeav). Groundlessly, without cause. See on 2 Th. iii. 8. The sense here is not common. It is not found in Class., and in N. T. only J. xv. 25. In LXX, see Ps. exMav. (19 sevil. Opecxyil. 161: 1.Sam. xix. 56; Sir. xx. 23; xxix. 6. Comp. Ignatius, Trall. x. Paul says: “I do not invalidate the grace of God in the offering of Christ, as one does who seeks to reéstablish the law as a means of justification ; for if righteousness comes through the law, there was no occasion for Christ to die.”