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[1] {raised}
Christ died under our sins
# 1Pe 2:24 2Co 5:21
that He was raised and exalted to God's right hand, "now to appear in
the presence of God for us"
# Heb 9:24
is the token that our sins are gone, that His work for us has the
divine approbation and that we, for whom He suffered, are completely
justified.
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[2] {Wherefore} [3] {have sinned}
The "wherefore" relates back to
# Ro 3:19-23
and may be regarded as a continuation of the discussion of the
universality of sin, interrupted
# Ro 3:24-5:11
by the passage on justification and its results.
[3]
The first sin wrought the moral ruin of the race. The demonstration
is simple. (1) Death is universal (vs 12,14), all die: sinless
infants, moral people, religious people, equally with the depraved.
For a universal effect there must be a universal cause; that cause is
a state of universal sin (v. 12). (2) But this universal state must
have had a cause. It did. The consequence of Adam's sin was that
"the many were made sinners" (v. 19)--"By the offence of one judgment
came upon all men unto condemnation" (v. 18). (3) Personal sins are
not meant here. From Adam to Moses death reigned (v. 14), although,
there being no law, personal guilt was not imputed (v. 13).
Accordingly, from Gen 4.7 to Ex 29.14 the sin-offering is not once
mentioned. Then, since physical death from Adam to Moses was not due
to the sinful acts of those who die (v. 13), it follows that it was
due to a universal sinful state, or nature, and that state is
declared to be out inheritance from Adam. (4) the moral sate of
fallen man is described in Scripture
# Ge 6:5 1Ki 8:46 Ps 14:1-3 39:5 Jer 17:9 Mt 18:11 Mr 7:20,23
# Ro 1:21,22 3:9-19 7:24 8:7 Joh 3:6 1Co 2:14 2Co 3:14 4:4
# Ga 5:19-21 Eph 2:1-3,11,12 4:18-22 Col 1:21 Heb 3:13 Jas 4:14
# 1Co 15:22
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[4] {Adam to Moses}
Broadly, the contrast is: Adam: sin, death; Christ: righteousness, life.
Adam drew down into his ruin the old creation
# Ro 8:19-22
of which he was lord and head. Christ brings into moral unity with God,
and into eternal life, the new creation of which he is Lord and Head.
# Eph 1:22,23
Even the animal and material creation, cursed for man's sake.
# Ge 3:17
will be delivered by Christ.
# Isa 11:6-9 Ro 8:19-22
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[1] {sin}
"Sin" in Rom 6., 7. is the nature in distinction from "sins," which are
manifestations of that nature.
Cf.
# 1Jo 1:8
with
# 1Jo 1:10
where this distinction also appears.
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[2] {old}
The expression occurs elsewhere, in
# Eph 4:22 Col 3:9
and always means the man of old, corrupt human nature, the inborn
tendency to evil in all men. In
# Ro 6:6
it is the natural man himself; in
# Eph 4:22 Col 3:9
his ways. Positionally, in the reckoning of God, the old man is crucified,
and the believer is exhorted to make this good in experience, reckoning
it to be so by definitely "putting off" the old man and "putting on" the
new
# Col 3:8-14
See Ep 4.24, note 3
» See Note "Eph 4:24"
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[3] {What then}
The old relation to the law and sin, and the new relation to Christ and
life are illustrated by the effect of death upon servitude
# Ro 6:16-23
and marriage
# Ro 7:1-6
(1) The old servitude was nominally to the law, but, since the law had
no delivering power, the real master continued to be sin in the nature.
The end was death. The law could not give life, and "sin" (here
personified as the old self) is in itself deathful. But
death in another form, ie., crucifixion with Christ, has intervened
# Ro 6:6
to free the servant from his double bondage to sin (vs 6,7), and to
the law
# Ro 7:4,6
(2) This effect of death is further illustrated by widowhood. Death
dissolves the marriage relation
# Ro 7:1-3
As natural death frees a wife from the law of her husband, so
crucifixion with Christ sets the believer free from the law.
» See Note "Ga 3:24"