10, 11. And if Christ be in you--by His indwelling Spirit in virtue of
which we have one life with him.
the body--"the body indeed."
is dead because of--"by reason of"
sin; but the spirit is life because--or, "by reason"
of righteousness--The word "indeed," which the original requires, is of
the nature of a concession--"I grant you that the body is dead . . . and
so far redemption is incomplete, but," &c.; that is, "If Christ be
in you by His indwelling Spirit, though your 'bodies' have to pass
through the stage of 'death' in consequence of the first Adam's 'sin,'
your spirit is instinct with new and undying 'life,' brought in by the
'righteousness' of the second Adam" [THOLUCK,
MEYER, and
ALFORD in part,
but only HODGE entirely].
JFB.
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