10. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the
death of his Son, much more, being now--"having now been"
reconciled, we shall be saved by his life--that is "If that part of
the Saviour's work which cost Him His blood, and which had to be wrought
for persons incapable of the least sympathy either with His love or His
labors in their behalf--even our 'justification,' our
'reconciliation'--is already completed; how much more will He do all
that remains to be done, since He has it to do, not by death agonies any
more, but in untroubled 'life,' and no longer for enemies, but for
friends--from whom, at every stage of it, He receives the grateful
response of redeemed and adoring souls?" To be "saved from wrath through
Him," denotes here the whole work of Christ towards believers, from
the moment of justification, when the wrath of God is turned away from
them, till the Judge on the great white throne shall discharge that
wrath upon them that "obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ"; and
that work may all be summed up in "keeping them from falling, and
presenting them faultless before the presence of His glory with
exceeding joy"
(Jude 24):
thus are they "saved from wrath through Him."
JFB.
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