7Or, Who shall descend into the deep?(that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
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Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The scope of the apostle in this part of the chapter is to show the vast difference between the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith, and the great pre-eminence of the righteousness of faith above that of the law; that he might induce and persuade the Jews to believe in Christ, aggravate the folly and sin of those that refused, and justify God in the rejection of such refusers.…
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