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57. τῷ διδόντι ἡμῖν τὸ νῖκος. This sense of having transgressed that righteous law need disturb us no longer. Our shortcomings have been fully atoned for by the Life and Death of Jesus Christ and by our participation first in that Death, and next in that Life. The mortal part of us must pay the penalty due to sin (Rom 6:23), but the spiritual part remains unaffected by that punishment, because it is united to Him Who has fulfilled the law, has taken our condemnation upon Himself, has acknowledged its justice on our behalf, and has enabled us through fellowship with Him to attain to the victory over evil which He Himself has attained. To that spiritual part God ‘giveth a body as it pleaseth him,’ and to every man a body of his own. See 1Co 15:38. διδόντι is usually explained as referring to the certainty of the gift. But it is perhaps better to refer it to its continuousness. He is now giving us the victory, and therein we have an earnest of its future endurance. Cf. 1Jn 5:4-5; Rev 2:7, &c.