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A Pauline elegant turning-off from denunciatory warnings to charitable hopes of his readers (Rom 8:12).
saving of the soul - literally, “acquisition (or obtaining) of the soul.” The kindred Greek verb is applied to Christ’s acquiring the Church as the purchase of His blood (Act 20:28). If we acquire or obtain our soul’s salvation, it is through Him who has obtained it for us by His bloodshedding. “The unbelieving man loses his soul: for not being God’s, neither is he his own [compare Mat 16:26, with Luk 9:25]: faith saves the soul by linking it to God” [Delitzsch in Alford].