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Rom 8:32. Ὅσγε, who) This first special section has four sentences: the third has respect to the first, the fourth to the second. He did not spare His own Son: therefore there is nothing, which He will not forgive. He delivered up His Son for us: therefore no one shall accuse us on account of our sins, ch. Rom 4:25. He was delivered [for our offences]. Nor does the clause, who shall lay anything to the charge, so closely cohere with that which follows, as with that which goes before; for the delivering up of Christ for us forbids all laying ought to our charge: whereas our justification [Rom 8:33, it is God that justifieth] does not forbid the laying things to our charge, but overcomes it. Γὲ has a sweetness full of exultation, as the καὶ, even-also, Rom 8:34, repeated: ὅς, who, has its apodosis, he, implied in the following words.-οὐκ ἐφείσατο, did not spare) LXX. οὐκ ἐφείσω τοῦ υἱοῦ σου κ.τ.λ., Gen 22:16, concerning Abraham and Isaac, and Paul seems to have had that passage in his mind. God, so to speak, offered violence to His love as a Father.-ἡμῶν πάντων, us all) In other places it is generally said, all we, of all of us; but here us is put first with greater force and emphasis. The perception of grace in respect to ourselves is prior to our perception of universal grace [grace in respect to the world at large]. Many examples of its application are found without any mention of its universality, for instance, 1Ti 1:15-16 : whereas its universality is subsequently commended for the purpose of stimulating to the farther discharge of duties, ib. Rom 2:1, etc.-παρέδωκεν) delivered up. So LXX., Isa 53:6.-καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ, with Himself also) καὶ also adds an epitasis[101] to the reasoning from the greater to the less. It was more [a greater stretch of love] not to spare His Son; now, with the Son, that is, when we have the Son already sacrificed, at all costs, to us [by the Father], He will certainly forgive us [give us freely] all things.-πάντα) all things, that are for our salvation.-χαρίσεται, will freely give [and forgive]) The antithesis to He did not spare. The things which are the consequence of redemption, are themselves also of grace [freely given: χαρίσεται, χάρις].
[101] See Appendix. Some word added to give increased emphasis or clearness to a previous enunciation.