The Pulpit Commentary — Romans — Section 394

whereof RI'(' to be 1>11f on. M a new invest- in rioting and dnmken.n.e11, not in ohl\mber- ment. the gfflN'S 11nd nrtuee, 1111pplied to us l.nlf and wantonne■■, not in ■trlfe and &.:>m the region of light, whioh oonstit.ute envying (mther,jealouev, denoting joolous the Chril!tian <' hRl'ftot~r ( ef. l The.."ll. v. 8; ,nath, of. Aots xiii. 45). Bnt put ye on 2 Cor. vi. i; Eph. n. ll.11t1q.). In all t\l(lse the Lord .Teaua Chrillt. 'l'ho 11.guro of a new p . ~ the new clothing to be put on is investment being renewed from var. 12, it des1guared Ill' 11rmour, the ide3 being is bore Christ himself who ie to bo put on. ('IILl"ried out in detail in Eph. vi. 11, etc. ; 8o also Gal. ill. 27, For the.idea implied, 11.nd thus the further ooneeption is intro- of. Eph. iv, 28, 2i ; Ow. iii. 12; eh. viii. duC'ed of Christians being 118 soldiers on 9, 10; l Oor. vi. 15, 17. "lndnere autem the wnk.h during the wa.tches of the night, Christum hio signi.fioat virtuto Spiritus ojus awaiting daybre&k, equipPffl with arms of undique nos muniri, que. idonei ad omnes heavenly proof, ce.reful not to sleep on tileir sanctitatis po.rtes reddamur. Bio enim post, or to allow themselves in revelry or instllumtur in nobis imago Dei, qum uni- a.ny deeds of shame, such as are done in the cum est animm omo.mentnm" (Oalvin). It night under the cover of de.rl.-ness. may be observed that in Gal. iii. 27 Yelll. 18, 14.-Aa in the day, let us walk Christians are said to ho.ve already put on honllltly (in the sense which hcneste bears Christ in their baptism; here they a.re ex- in Latin of deoently, be.comingly, wit},. de- horted still to do so. Tilere is no reel corwm.. The word rorrX71µ.&.,..,s oooure also contradiction; they are but exhorted to in 1 Thess. iv. 12; 1 Cor. vii. 35; xiv. 40. realize in actual life the meaning of their It denotes here a waJ.k of life the entire be.ptism. And make not provision for the opposite of tuT'JC'I/J.Dtror't/ ( oh. i. 2i), a.nd of flesh, to fulfil the lust& thereof (literally, the things done in secret of which it is umo lusts). a shame io speak; cl. Eph. v. 11, 12): not