25Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. …
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. …
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in 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. 23-25)In the close of the chapter, he applies all to us; and, having abundantly proved that Abraham was justified by faith, he here concludes that his justification was to be the pattern or sampler of ours: It was not written for his sake alone . It was not intended only for an historical commendation of Abraham, or a relation of something peculiar to him (as some antipaedobaptists will needs understand…
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