elect on account of those sins committed by them. And the how and who are thus combined in one and the same section, but there is also a double relation, 1.) God did not spare His own Son. Therefore, He will also forgive us with Him all things. 2.) He delivered Him up for us all. Therefore, no one shall lay any- thing to the charge of God’s elect.) The second section has re- spect to the present; It is God that justifieth , Who is he that condemneth ; comp, by all means, Isa. 1. 8, 9. The third section is concerning the future ; It is Christ [that died], etc. Who shall separate us ? For it is a future non-separation which is implied in the shall separate , as appears by comparing this with the end of ver. 38. The Past and ’Present are the foundation of the Future, and often the love of Christ is inferred from His death, ch. v. 5, etc. ; Gal. ii. 20 ; Rev. i. 5. An interrogative apodosis such as this is frequent, and is admirably suited to a spirited discourse. — Acts viii. 33 ; Num. xxiv. 9 ; Job ix. 12, xxxiv, 29 ; Ps. xxvii. 1 ; Isa. xiv. 27, xliii. 13 ; Lam. ii. 13, at the end of verse ; Amos iii. 8.
32. "Ooys, who ) This first special section has four sentences: the third has respect to the first, the fourth to the second. He did not spare His own Son : therefore there is nothing, which He will not forgive. He delivered up His Son for us : therefore no one shall accuse us on account of our sins, ch. iv. 25. He teas delivered [for our offences]. Nor does the clause, who shall lay anything to the charge , so closely cohere with that which fol- lows, as with that which goes before ; for the delivering up of Christ for us forbids all laymg ought to our charge : whereas our justification [ver. 33, it is G od that justifieth ] does not forbid the laying things to our charge , but overcomes it. Ii has a sweetness full of exultation, as the %a/', even — also , ver. 34, repeated: og , who , has its apodosis, he, implied in the following words. — ouz etpsiffaro, did not spare) lxx. cvz eps/ffu rov viov <fov z.r.X,, Gen. xxii. 16, con- cerning Abraham and Isaac, and Paul seems to have had that passage in his mind. God, so to speak, offered violence to His love as a Father. — ij/uuv tfuvruv, us all) In other places it is gene- rally said, all we , of all of us ; but here us is put first with greater force and emphasis. The perception of grace in respect to our- selves is prior to our perception of universal grace [grace in re- spect to the world at large]. Many examples of its application