Verses 31-39
5. Our eternal security 8:31-39
The apostle developed the fact that God will not lose one whom He has foreknown in this climactic section, and he gloried in this great truth. He asked and answered seven questions to drive home this truth.
"Nowhere in the annals of sacred literature do we find anything to match the power and beauty of this remarkable paean of praise." [Note: Mounce, p. 173.]
"This whole passage . . . strikes all thoughtful interpreters and readers, as transcending almost every thing in language . . ." [Note: R. Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and D. Brown, Commentary Practical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, p. 1163.]
". . . God’s, or Christ’s, love is the motif of this paragraph, mentioned three times (Romans 8:35; Romans 8:37; Romans 8:39; cf. Romans 5:5-8)." [Note: Moo, p. 539.]
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