(J. Mortification is a sure sign of saving grace. BibliographyCoke, Thomas. (91) τοῦ σώματος) Others read, τῆς σαρκός. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die - Though μελλετε αποθνησκειν may mean, ye shall afterwards die, and this seems to indicate a temporal death, yet not exclusively of an eternal death; for both, and especially the latter, are necessarily implied. The animating result of the successful conflict with the flesh. 1999. spiritually minded. ‘Not are about to live; this life being no natural consequence of a course of mortifying the deeds of the body, but the gift of God through Christ; and coming, therefore, in the form of an assurance, “ye shall live,” from Christ’s Apostle’ (Alford). 1909-1922. Raise us above sin. Justification supposeth guilt, sanctification filth, mortification life, preceding those acts. By way of improvement we shall add a word, [Suppose it had been written, “If ye live after the flesh, ye shall go to heaven;” could the generality take any surer way to obtain the blessing, than that which they now pursue? Jesus Christ came by water and blood; not by water only, but by water and blood, — signifying by the blood the expiation of the guilt of our sins by His death, and by water the virtue of His Spirit for our sanctification in washing our souls from the pollution of sin. Oecumenius aptly says: τὸν ἀθάνατον θάνατον ἐν τῇ γεέννῃ. So 2 Corinthians 5:10. Crucifixion is the manner of killing it which God has appointed (Galatians 5:24). This tense stresses the necessity of continually putting to death the deeds of the flesh. "Commentary on Romans 8:13". As creature we (the suffering us of the last verse) look forward to the promised renovation. And how can a son of God perish? And why does St. Paul say, “If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live”? 4. BibliographyExell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "Romans 8:13". The reward promised to the performers and performance of this duty; Ye shall live; namely, a life of grace and holiness, a life of joy and comfort, a life of glory and happiness. “Perhaps the most wonderful part of the book of Romans for me is in Romans chapter 8, where it summarizes how you change from the inside out—how you change deeply.” Spend five days walking through this majestic passage of Scripture with Timothy Keller and discover the perspective that transforms everything. 1685. So Paul (Romans 8:13) uses the word the flesh, and the body, as a general term, indeed, yet now considered specially as ours. II. For, etc. "Commentary on Romans 8:13". W.E. Unsuitable to a state of glory (Colossians 1:12). Ye shall die— ΄ελλετε αποθνησκειν, ye shall die hereafter; namely, the second death at the last day. Paul is talking to Christians. Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/romans-8.html. The same truth was taught in the O.T. Ought we thus to seek to divide Christ, receiving only the efficacy of His blood and not that of His Spirit; desiring that He should be made to us righteousness and not also sanctification? Jesus, full of the spirit of Sonship, put back easily all the suggestions of the tempter. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/romans-8.html. BibliographyWesley, John. But to mortify the flesh, is impossible to man: it can be effected only by the mighty working of that power, which raised Christ himself from the dead [Note: Ephesians 1:19-20 and 1 Peter 1:22. with the text. First, from the strength and power of sin, and that rooting which it hath in the soul. Thirdly, this mortification, it does imply a weakening of the power and vigour of sin in us. Self-control is one of that sweet cluster called "the fruit of the Spirit," in Galatians 5:22." Make us triumphant over sin. I. "Frédéric Louis Godet - Commentary on Selected Books". They who have already put on Christ as their sanctifier, are still exhorted to put Him on, ch. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/romans-8.html. A breaking of the league naturally held with sin (Ephesians 5:11; Hosea 14:8). Some have objected to the doctrine of progressive sanctification, and have conceived that to assert it is a great error. Greek. He may and ought, therefore, to pray for a larger measure of influence and grace from Him who gives grace in that measure which pleases Him. And as the usage of melloo (Greek #3195) is so various, perhaps nothing more was meant by the use of it in the first clause than to vary the futures.] And this death of sin is to be effected by the life of God in the soul. First, there is no true pleasure or contentment in it. Romans 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Spiritual life is conditional. on StudyLight.org A restraint is merely a pull back, by a stronger power, but mortification is from a strength given, a new mettle put into the soul (Ephesians 3:16). Ye shall live - You shall be happy and saved. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. This is an evidence that they have “passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). It takes away every ground of hope from those who profess to know God, and in works deny Him; for they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. The Holy Spirit works in men according to the constitution that God has given them. 63. Even so is it likewise in grace: those who have the strongest corruption, they have the hardest mortification. Hence the striking force of the injunctions--“Crucify the flesh”; “put away the old man”; “cast out the bondwoman”; “cut off the offending right hand,” or “pluck out the right eye.”, 2. (a) Mortification is always from an inward principle, restraints from an outward. The destruction of sin is to be effected through the Spirit, which does not mean the renewed feelings of the heart, but, as uniformly throughout the passage, the Holy Spirit which dwells in believers: see Romans 8:14, where this Spirit is called "Spirit of God." Every vessel must be emptied of its foul water before it can receive that which is clean. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/romans-8.html. Sc. This however is no excuse for our subjection to the flesh, since the Holy Spirit shall be given to all that ask it at God’s hands [Note: Luke 11:13.]. And this is also consequent upon living after the flesh. This arises from that strength and settlement which sin hath in the heart. But he tempers this by the bright alternative, that if they do, through the Spirit, mortify the deeds of the body, such a course will infallibly terminate in "life" everlasting. And this we may take according to these following explications. It is spiritual death, in the comprehensive scriptural sense of that term, which includes all the penal consequences of sin here and hereafter, Romans 6:21, Romans 8:6; Galatians 6:8. It is true that there is a sense in which believers are perfectly sanctified from the moment they believe. For if you live … - If you live to indulge your carnal propensities, you will sink to eternal death; Romans 7:23. "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". There is a second death to which that first death of the body is a mere trivial and harmless accident, and that may begin in this life, and if it be not stopped and cured in time, may go on for ever. The agents in this work, and they are two: 1. Do not talk about making your peace with God some day--like a naughty child playing truant till the last moment, and hoping that the schoolmaster may forget to punish it. ‘Deeds,’ or, ‘practices,’ has usually a bad sense in the New Testament, while the ‘body’ is here regarded as the organ of sin, having evil practices which the Holy Spirit enables us to put to death, to exterminate. See on Romans 7:15; see on John 3:21. Luke 23:51. On the contrary, our justification and our sanctification, as is shown in the sixth chapter, are inseparable. Either your sins must die, or you must. "Family Bible New Testament". Beetles love dunghills better than ointments; and swine love mud better than a garden; so do swinish people their lusts, better than the lives of their souls. This is--, 2. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/vnt/romans-8.html. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Heaven is a place for conquerors only (Revelation 3:21). The reason is, that Satan suggests to them, as he did to our first parents, “Ye shall not surely die.” But shall we believe Satan in opposition to God? Created nature does not more abhor natural death, the death of the body, than corrupted nature does abhor this mystical death. Secondly, spiritual death, which consists in deprivation of grace, and holiness, and peace, and spiritual comfort. It may be joined either (1.) If it were true that Paul did not believe in a resurrection for unbelievers, he would stand in direct antagonism to John 5:28 f.; Acts 24:15; Matthew 5:29 f., Matthew 10:28; and even 1 Corinthians 15:24 (see on that passage). BibliographyVincent, Marvin R. DD. "Commentary on Romans 8:13". Better cut off the hand than lose the head; rather maim the body than mar the soul. No matter what professions we may make, or what hopes we may indulge justification, or the manifestation of the divine favor, is never separated from sanctification. 1. There are some, that by body here do understand the corrupt nature, the same that before in many places he calls the flesh: this was called, Romans 8:6, the body of sin, and here it is called the body. In fellowship with holy men, how hateful sin appears! It is frequently used thus by Greek authors, as also πράγματα. Learn hence, Mortification must be universal as well as continual, not one deed, but deeds; not the deeds of the body only, but of the soul also must be mortified; all evil dispostiions, depraved habits, corrupt affections, as well as irregular actions, must be watched against, and the whole body of sin become the object of mortification. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. The former words were a threatening to excite our industry; these are a promise to prevent our dejection. 3. We know that to be a man we must be something more than a mere brute--for when we call any one a brute, what do we mean? “If a man find his enemy,” says Saul, “will he let him go well away?” Enmity, it invites destruction as well as threatens it. The more principal agent is the Holy Spirit. 1870. A present sickness may make an epicure nauseate the dainties which he would before rake even in the sea to procure. But if ye mortify the deeds, &c.] Either a man must kill here, or be killed, Aut fer, aut feri, as Queen Elizabeth often sighed and said to herself concerning the Queen of Scots. Even industry in business may be in our way, and if so we must consent to mortification here. 3. , "what shall a man do that he may live? after the Spirit. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges, William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament, "For we must note most carefully that a holy life is to be lived, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, "if we live after the flesh we shall die,", Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Hodge's Commentary on Romans, Ephesians and First Corintians, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. 1. "Here is a terrible warning: . So a man also, that is spiritually mortified, sin is in him made unactive and unfit for the former services and performances which proceeded from it. Ye shall die, are about to die. 1917. And shall this be thought an hard saying? Vv. "Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament". "Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament". Through the Spirit - By the aid of the Spirit; by cherishing and cultivating his influences. Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die … Such persons are dead, whilst they live, and shall die a second or an eternal death, if grace prevent not. Home > Study Desk. There are babes in Christ, Corinthians 3:1; there are little children, and young men, and fathers, John 2:12. Either your sins must die, or you must. "Flesh" and "spirit" are essentially and unchangeably opposed (not substantially, however-as some dream-but morally); nor can the carnal mind, as such, be brought into real subjection to the law of God. The necessity of thus living is enforced by a repetition of the sentiment of Romans 8:6. It makes us slaves to Satan; it makes us enemies to God; it crucifies Christ; it fights against the soul. There is this difference indeed; that whereas the former is the wages due to sin, the latter is the gift of God through Christ [Note: Romans 6:23.]. The believer is principium activum, but the Spirit is principium effectivum. "William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament". How much more, therefore, when in fellowship with the Holy One? Believers obtain sanctification by the Spirit through the truth. Ambition decays in age when strength is wasted, but sprouts up in a young man. or with the whole of Romans 8:25; (3.) If we live after the flesh] We must not think to pass E coeno ad Caelum, from the mire to heaven, to dance with the devil all day, and sup with Christ at night, to fly to heaven with pleasant wings. ‘Therefore’ sums up what precedes. American Tract Society. Romans 8:13. He adds a threatening, in order more effectually to shake off their torpor; by which also they are fully confuted who boast of justification by faith without the Spirit of Christ, though they are more than sufficiently convicted by their own conscience; for there is no confidence in God, where there is no love of righteousness. By believing in Christ persons may receive the Holy Spirit, under his influence become spiritually minded, overcome their propensities to evil, delight in the law of the Lord, and so act as through the grace of God to live for ever. And that is here expressed to be the Spirit. Die—The fulness of death that arises from carnality. ], and make myself happy in my own way.’ God replies to him, “Thou wouldest none of me; and thou shall have none of me; depart from me for evermore [Note: Compare Psalms 81:11. with Matthew 25:41. If the common reading, therefore, is to be retained, (see footnote,) it is better to take the word in its literal and usual sense. 4. Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. Fifthly and lastly, it implies continuance and the often renewing of this act time after time. And those, let me say, who, without giving way to those grosset vices, let their minds be swallowed up with vanity, always longing to be seen and looked at, and wondering what folks will say of them, they too give way to the flesh, and lower themselves to the likeness of animals. (See Scofield "Romans 5:21"). If ye live agreeably to your carnal nature, without Christ and faith in Him, and according to the corrupt principles that belong to man in the state in which he is born, ye shall die. 3. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/shh/romans-8.html. No man can be alive to God, that is, perform lively service to Him, but he that is first dead to sin, that is, that hath sin and corruption first crucified and mortified in him. 1835. But it is unnecessary. II. It may be asked, whether one that has received the grace of God in truth, can live after the flesh; flesh, or corrupt nature, though still in such a person, has not the dominion over him: to live in sin, or in a continued course of sinning, is contrary to the grace of God; but flesh may prevail and greatly influence the life and conversation, for a while; how long this may be the case of a true believer, under backslidings, through the power of corruptions and temptations, cannot be known; but certain it is, that it shall not be always thus with him. "Commentary on Romans 8:13". The expression is stronger than the simple future of the verb. Romans 8:2 tells us we are free from the power of sin. Romans 7:10; Romans 7:24, Romans 8:6; Romans 8:10. He who spends his life in cunning plots and mean tricks, gives way to the “brute” in him, just as much as the fox or ferret. “If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die.” Thirdly, there is another death, and that is death eternal. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. God’s Spirit in us raises us into the region of spirit. What it is to mortify. 13. The moment they believe, they are justified in Christ and perfectly righteous; and the moment they believe, they are sanctified in Him, and in Him are perfectly holy. (G. The happy state of those who believe in Christ, and walk under the influence of his Spirit, 1,2. (2) The sanctification of believers, as it has its whole foundation in the atoning death, so it has its living spring in the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:2-4). A powerful resistance, by using all the weapons of the Christian armoury (Ephesians 6:13-14, etc.). This is a duty which lies upon every Christian, to exercise and inure himself to mortification, that is, to the killing and crucifying of sin in him. As we see it is again in nature, that those who have the strongest constitutions, they have commonly the painfullest deaths. This word occurs but twice in the whole Scriptures--in the text, and in Colossians 3:5. They hold that there is no more progress in sanctification than there is in justification, and that both are complete at once on believing the truth. Against the whole design of the gospel. "Commentary on Romans 8:13". BibliographyGodbey, William. John Trapp Complete Commentary. First, a sober and moderate use of the creatures in those things which in their own nature are lawful and warrantable. (5) the estrangement of God and the sinner is mutual. This is the dark side of the matter. The fourth, and last, is the benefit or reward consequent upon it. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain. Romans 8:5-8 The evil of being carnally minded, and the good of being. The death here cannot be physical since however a person lives he will die physically." Melloo (Greek #3195), as distinguished from the simple future, denotes an action already begun, or at least in preparation, rather than wholly future: see the note at Matthew 2:13, p. 7. But if, by the Spirit. Tons more resources, better tools, NIV84 and easier navigation. Therefore it must mean temporal death. It indicates a necessary consequence. "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". The term πράξεις, further used by Paul only in Colossians 3:9 (not ἔργα), is purposely selected to express the evil conception, which Hofmann (“acts”) without any ground calls in question. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/romans-8.html. And the post of power must be renounced if we discover that it has led us to forget our weakness apart from God. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ges/romans-8.html. 3. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/romans-8.html. ]; I will be a god to myself [Note: Psalms 12:4. But some one will say--“Of course we shall all die--good and bad alike.” Then why does our Lord say, “He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die”? Choose in time whether the better horse shall win or the worse. The Spirit helps us to mortify sin--. We may well wonder at this marvellous grace of God, who has annexed such glorious consequences to our poor and feeble endeavours. No man pours rich wine into old casks. This leads the apostle into a new line of thought, opening into his final subject-the "glory" awaiting the justified believer. Secondly, from a connection of the cause with the effect. The separation of soul and body from God for ever in hell. “Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” We can understand too the parable of Plato, who says, that the soul of man is like a chariot, guided by a man’s will, but drawn by two horses--the one horse white, beautiful and noble, well-broken and winged, always trying to rise and fly upward with the chariot toward heaven; but the other black, evil, and unmanageable, always trying to rush downward, and drag the chariot and the driver into hell. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hdg/romans-8.html. (Preb. First, wherein this mortifying of sin, whereof we now speak, does mainly and principally consist. ]; (as a mariner may cast all his goods out of his ship to save the vessel, without any aversion to the goods themselves) or may exchange our sins, prodigality for avarice, sensuality for self-righteousness, or the love of vanity for sloth and indifference. Thus doing, we “shall live.” There is no condemnation to persons of this character. 2. For the two attributes son and heir of God, which are about to be developed, the one in Romans 8:14-16, the other in Romans 8:17, exhaust the notion of life. It is not enough to forbear the actings of sin, but we must kill and crucify it. Sin, and especially a living and conversing in the ways of it, brings death. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsc/romans-8.html. To keep sin alive is to defend it against the will of God, and to challenge the combat with our Maker. The Sonship of Believers (Romans 8:14-16). saith the Lord: be strong, therefore, and of a good courage; for the Lord thy God is with thee [Note: Joshua 1:9. Aaron down in the plain was soon seduced from God’s commandments. 1. p. 72. ἀποθνήσκειν] The opposite of the ζωή in Romans 8:10 f.; consequently used of the being transferred into the state of eternal death; and then ζήσεσθε in the sense of eternal life (see Romans 8:17). Body and soul shall die the second, an eternal death. That look as a body which is dead, it is thereby made unserviceable and unfit for the actions of life. Through the Spirit; i.e. This we should endeavour to mortify in its outward actings, and in its inmost motions. It would seek to do him good, and would thus fulfil all the purposes of justice and truth which we owe to him. Numberless are the passages of God’s word which will afford us the desired information; but there is not in the whole inspired volume one declaration more explicit than that before us. The duty is ours; the grace is His. BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. ].” The very state in which they lived, was a state of spiritual death [Note: ver. New York. (a) An exchange. But it is very much to be doubted whether the word ever has this sense in the New Testament. spiritually. (4) No human refinement of the carnal mind will make it spiritual, or compensate for the absence of spirituality. In this way the regenerate man himself would go on to death. If he may say, ‘Lord, increase my faith,’ he may likewise say, ‘Lord, increase my sanctification.’ He receives the Holy Spirit only in a measure. 2013. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die - in the sense of Romans 6:21; But if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body (see the note at Romans 7:23), ye shall live - in the sense of Romans 6:22. What is the meaning of this? They live to God; and in this, their gradual sanctification, consists their meetness for heaven, where sin shall be all done away. Love to him would prompt to no injury. 13. (b) Our selfish passions (Galatians 5:20, “hatred,” etc.). ‘For if you live after the flesh, you must die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.’. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. What is here required can be accomplished only by the aid of the Holy Spirit. “Ye shall live” a life of grace and holiness, of estrangement from the world and communion with God; of happiness, usefulness, and comfort on earth, and of glory and blessedness in heaven. 3. σῶμα is not used here for σάρξ (Reiche and others); Paul has not become inconsistent with his own use of language (Stirm in Tüb. 1871-8. Why does the apostle say: the works of the body, and not of the flesh? Romans 6:1, he describes the pure and living state, which is the inheritance of believers. "Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)". Our corrupt nature is often represented as a body, because it has many parts or members whereby it acts [Note: Romans 7:24. We should see that, as we are pilgrims in this world, we have for our guide the Spirit of sanctification. Secondly, our own interest and the great good which we reap from it, both in point of grace and comfort, and at last of salvation itself, as it follows afterwards in the text, where it is said, “Ye shall live.” Thirdly, the evil of the contrary, and the great disparagement which lies upon sin unmortified. 1832. The act specified, or duty enjoined, and that is, mortification; If ye mortify, that is, kill every sin: it is not enough to oppose sin, but we must destroy sin, nothing but the destruction of sin must content us. (8) Whatever professions of spiritual life men may make, it remains eternally true that “if we live after the flesh we shall die,” and only “if we through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body we shall live” (Romans 8:13, and compare Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8; Ephesians 5:6; Philemon 3:18, Philemon 3:19; 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:8). We do this through the Spirit. The things which are done in the body, though comprehending the soul likewise, the actions of the whole person; and Colossians 3:9, the old man with his deeds. Test drive it and tell us about your experience. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/romans-8.html. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. There must be a combat before a victory, and a victory before a triumph. It is a certainty. Romans 8:13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. If they are suffered to live, you will die. thanatoo. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/romans-8.html. “Ye are on the point of dying.” Eternal death. The more sin dies, the more the soul lives. Greek. And this leads the apostle into a new line of thought, opening into his final subject, the “glory” awaiting the justified believer. ( Romans 13:14, etc romans 8:13 studylight ) and it is not then of,! 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