Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hal/romans-8.html. Realisation. How various are the kinds and degrees of suffering, and how many are the quarters from whence it arises! And so there is this in it, that affliction it is only for a season. To the enjoyment of this glory after the persecutions and troubles of this life, the Bridegroom is represented as calling His Church. BibliographyTrapp, John. (4) It cannot but swell the heart of every intelligent Christian to think that if external nature has been mysteriously affected for evil by the fall of man, it only awaits his completed recovery, at the resurrection, to experience a corresponding emancipation from its blighted condition into undecaying life and unfading beauty ( Romans 8:19-23 ). This grace is the root both of the sufferings and the glory. This glory is to be revealed; it is therefore already; and indeed it exists not only in the plan of God decreeing it to us, but also in the person of Christ glorified, with whose appearing it will be visibly displayed. “Sir,” he answered, “this life is so worthless, I cannot think why men cling to it, and if I did not know that God wills us to abide here till He calls us, I should not be here now.” Such indifference to life surprised the bishop, who inquired if the old man had any hidden sorrow. Then surely, while "building ourselves up on our most holy faith," and "praying in the Holy Ghost," only the more should we feel constrained to "keep ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life" ( Jude 1:20 Jude 1:21 ). For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die--in the sense of Romans 6:21 . The exact point of the comparison as it stood in the apostle’s mind. Thol. For I reckon — This verse gives the reason why he but now mentioned sufferings and glory. 1999. The apostle does not say, “I know,” for he had not drained the cup of earthly sorrow, and had but tasted the cup of heavenly joy. The comparison with future glory. The world is fallen (Gen 3), and while it is in the process of being restored by the finished work of Christ, suffering will remain a part of the experience for anyone in … With the far severer sufferings of many of our fellow-Christians who are as dear to God as we are. VI. 1896. "Commentary on Romans 8:18". Conclusion: Should any one standing on the threshold of the Christian life hesitate in view of its sufferings; or having put his hand to the plough, be disposed to look back; let him know that he is not fit for the kingdom of heaven. Francis de Sales was sent for to a labouring man, who greatly desired to receive his bishop’s blessing before his death. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. BibliographySchaff, Philip. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared, etc. In us and upon us, or, ‘to usward,’ as the phrase is rendered in Ephesians 1:19. Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. Origin--the one from sin, the other from God. Any great weight of affliction soon crushes the frail body, and causes it to seek repose in death. We need patience, our way is rough and long; but He that shall come, will come, though he seems to tarry. "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.". For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time, &c.] By "this present time" may be meant, the then present age, in which the apostle lived; which was an age in which the people of God suffered much, as was foretold by Christ, and which was necessary for the confirmation of the Gospel; for grace and strength answerable to their trials were given them; and the power of God was visibly to be seen in the supporting of them; though this was not the only suffering age: wherefore by the present time may be understood, the present time of life here on earth; which is a time of suffering, and which cannot well be otherwise, considering the world in which we are, and the nature of it, the state and condition of our souls, and the constitution of our bodies, and the many enemies we have about us; but then this present time of life is the only suffering time to the saints, for no sooner are they removed from hence, but they are in heaven, where neither wicked men nor devils can reach them, where their souls are freed from sin and unbelief, from doubts and fears, and everything that is distressing; and after the resurrection there will be no more diseases nor death in their bodies; and this present time is but a short time, a little while, and all sufferings will be at an end; wherefore they. Renewal 1960. 1832. IV. I think I'm missing something simple here because the way I see it is why would we compare our sufferings to something as great as God's glory in … who is even--"also" at the right hand of God--The right hand of the king was anciently the seat of honor (compare 1 Samuel 20:25 , 1 Kings 2:19 , Psalms 45:9 ), and denoted participation in the royal power and glory ( Matthew 20:21 ). Thirdly, this may be also evinced unto us, even from the principles of superstition itself. Secondly, he had experience. from the law of sin and death--It is the Holy Ghost who is here called "the Spirit of life," as opening up in the souls of believers a fountain of spiritual life just as He is called "the Spirit of truth," as "guiding them into all truth" ( John 16:13 ), and "the Spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord" ( Isaiah 11:2 ), as the inspirer of these qualities. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Not in mankind in general, though all be redeemed with the blood of Christ. (32-39). They shall behold not the ark and the propitiatory, but the things in the heavens which these were made to represent. Rep. p. 572 B: καὶ πάνυ δοκοῦσιν ἡμῶν ἐνίοις μετρίοις εἶναι. he is none of his--even though intellectually convinced of the truth of Christianity, and in a general sense influence by its spirit. But the apostle spoke more particularly of the Church in that age, when the sufferings of its members were peculiarly aggravated (2 Corinthians 4:8; 1 Corinthians 4:9-13; 2 Corinthians 6:4-5; Romans 8:35; Hebrews 10:32-34; Heb_11:36-38).

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