The Pulpit Commentary — Romans — Section 13

but here, while epeRklng of the fulfllmcnt prPpOijitfon in i~ l,va.tT-rdcr,.,i dl)()R w,t r!r;n,,1,, of Moseillnio propheoy, and desiring to point (nR expl11.inecl by Tbeorloret, Luther, and out whnt wne pu.tont to nll who belioved Grotiue) the tim,, from whir,h the l,p.,,µ.;,,. thu.t Ohrlet hnd risen, he mny fitly refer to began in the eenHe of •~ 06 1,,,/tT-rTf, hnt th,, hie exnltrltlon only, in virtuo of which, l<nl/1'ce out of which it pr,,cP,~.,ded. "'EK nr,n further, he had himeolf received hie apo1tolie moclo tempos, eed nexum rernm ,!,,not.at" commission, of which ho proceeds to speak, (Bengel). Farther, the pbl'lll!P, iR nr,t "reB11r- nnd the assertion which ho hoe hod nll along rection/rom the dead," as in tbo Autl,0rimrl in view. The above interpretation of 6pur8lv- Version, but "of the dead," which may he 1'oJ appe11rs, further, to have the weighty purposely used so ns to point, nr,t only tr, support of Pearson, who, speaking of Christ's the fact of Christ's own resurrection bat fourfold right unto the title of "the Son of also to its significance for mankind. 'Thro God "-by generation, as begotten of God; same expression often occura e!Mwhere by commission, as sent by him ; by resur- with a comprehensive meaning (cf. Acta reotion, as the Firstbom: by actual posses- :x.xiii. 6; x:xiv. 21; l Cor. xv.12-21; Phil. sion, as Heir of all-refers thus to eh. i. 4 : iii. 11; also 1 Oor. :xv. 22 ; PhiL iii. "Thus was he defined, or constituted, 1md 10). The resmrection of Christ expresser! • appointed to be the Son of God with power "the power of an endless life," here and by the Resurrection from the dead"', (Pearson hereafter, for mankind, carrying with it on the Creed, art. ii.). 'Ev ouv&.µei (to be the possibility of the resurn,ctiou of ail connected with 6p,alllv,-os)denotes the Divine from the dominion of death in the risen Son. power displayed in the Resnrrection (cf. One view of the meaning of the whole of Eph. i. 19, "the exceeding gree.tnesa of the above passage-that of Chrysostom nnd his potoe'I', • • . according to the working of Melancthon-may be mentioned because of the strength of his might, which he wrought the weight of these authorities, though it in Christ, when he raised him from the oan:!:"ot be th,e t~e one; They ~--ike K2.,.,i: dead;" of. also 1 Oor. vi. 14; :xv. 43; 2 Cor. -rv•uµa. d-y10,crW7Js, •v """"f'", and e{ c:tv=.,-"- :xiii. 4). In the le.at two of these passages, cr<o,s v•tcpiiiv, a.a co-ordinate, regarding thrm powe'I' evidenced in resurrection is con- as the three proofs of Christ's eternal Son- trasted with huinan weakness evidenced in ship, i.e. miracles, the communication oj the death : ';;1r<lpE1'a1 lv dcr8<ve,&, i-y•fp.,.a, lv Holy-- Ghost, and the resurrection,. 1esr:s liuvdµu; Krzl -yap ,r llT1'aupcI,871 l( 110-8•- Christ our Lo~d; thus in conclusion dis- v.tas, dM.& ('ii itc liuv&µ ..,s. To tcrz1'd crcl.ptcll. tinctly identifying the Son of prophecy witi, in ver. 3 iS:opposed, not simply tcrz1'tt 1rv,iiµa, the Jesus who had lately appeared., a.nd l"l'as but tca1'd .,,.,,.,,..,. <i-y10,avv11s (" the spirit of aoknowledged by the Christians as tbo holiness"), so as to denote the Divine element Messiah, a.nd commonly by them calle,1 that we.a all along in the Incnrnate Son, in Kup,os. The force of the pa,sso.ge i3 weakene,.l virtue of which he rose triumphant over in the Anthorized Version hy the trans- human &.cr8lv<1a, We too are composed of position of 'I71crou Xp11T1'ou Kupiou 71µ..ii,v to th" crcl.p( and .,,.,,;;,..,.; but the 1r11,iiµ11 in Christ beginning of ver. 3, as also by the inclusion was one of absolute holiness-the holiness of of ver. 2 in a pnrenthesis, so as to separate Deity ; not <i-y,h11s, holiness in the abstract, it from 1r,pl -roii uioii whicli follows. (See attributed to Deity (Hob. :xii. 10), nor <i-y,acr• e:xplanation given nbove.) p.bs, "B[lncti.fication," of which man is oe.- Ver. 5.-Throngh whom we received gmoe pable; but <i-y,.,crvVTJ, nn inherent quality of and apostleship, UIJ.to obedience of faith Divine holiness (" Qua.si tree sint gmdus, among all the nations, for his Name's sake. aanctificatio, sanctimonia, sa11ctitas," Dengel). ",v e" hero. means, not Christians geuernlly, Because of this " spirit of holiness " that but PQul himself (though probably, as nlso wns in Christ, "it wns not possible that he in nll other co.sea where he si.milu.rly uses should be holden of" deo.th (Aots ii. 24). this plural, with the intention of including Through this, whioh wns iu himself-not others, here his fellow-npostles); for the merely through n Divine power external to "grooe" spoken of i3 eviu,mtly from wh,\t himself calling him from the grave, ns he follows a speoinl grace for the apcstolfo hCLd co.Hod Lazarus-he overcame d011th (of. office to which he hod been cnlleu. The Aots ii. 27: :xiii. 35, "Thou shalt not word. a.1rocrroA~ occurs in n like sense in suffer thine Holy One to see oorruption "). Aots i, 25. Eh tnrmtc<n)r, 1ri<T1"to,s, eto., denotes It was through this too (liui 1rv•vµ<rros the purpos9 of his apostleship, viz. to bring alwvlou) that ho "offered himself without men ovcrywhere, of whl\tcver race, to be- spot to God" (Hob. ix. 14); nnd iu tho liove nnd obey the gc,spd; not to,, belief in so.me sense ml\y be understood /liu,11,cf,PTJ /11 it onlv, but to tho ,,bcdim1co which comes of ffl/EV/U1'1 (1 'l'im. iii. M). Nuithor in the-so faith," or whil•h faith rc1ukrs. "Al','<'pimus PI\Sel\goe nor in tho one bofore us is the IUt\ndntlllll Ev,mg,,Jii nd ,,runes g,,ntt's pro- Holy Spirit ID0l\nt, in the eonso of I\ distinct forondi,oui illru PL'r fidon1 obe,linnt" (Ctl.lvin). Porson of the Holy 'l'rinity. ~'urthor, the Somo tnko tlrn phrnsL', w<ll<o,)v wlcrr • .,s, t-0  THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS. [01t. 1.1-32,