Romans 8:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:7

(7) The carnal mind is death—because it implies enmity with God, and enmity with God is death. read more

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:8

(8) So then . . .—Rather, and. Neither can it be expected that those who are absorbed in the things of sense should be able to please God. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:9

(9) Such is not your case—if at least the Spirit of God and of Christ dwells in you, as it should in every Christian.The Spirit of God . . . the Spirit of Christ.—It is to be observed that these two terms are used as convertible. The Spirit of Christ is indeed the presence of Christ Himself in the soul. (Comp. John 14:16; John 14:18; John 14:20, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever. . . . I will not leave you comfortless... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:10

(10) The results of the presence of Christ in the soul.The body is dead because of sin.—Here the word is evidently used of physical death. The doom entailed by sin still, indeed, attaches to the body—but only to the body. The body, indeed, must die, but there the hold of sin upon the Christian ends; it cannot touch him farther.The Spirit is life because of righteousness.—But turn to another side of human nature; take it in its highest part and faculty—the spirit. That is full of vitality... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:11

(11) And this vitality extends beyond the grave. It will even react upon that material body which had just been spoken of as given over to death. Die it must; but the same Spirit to which the soul owes its life will also reinfuse life into the dead body, just as the body of Christ of Himself was raised from the dead.By his Spirit . . .—The balance of authority is in favour of the reading, “because of His Spirit” (as in margin); the other is an Alexandrian correction. It cannot be thought that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:12

(12) We are debtors.—We are under an obligation. Observe that in the lively sequence of thought the second clause of the antithesis is suppressed, “We are under an obligation, not to the flesh (but to the Spirit).” read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:12-17

(12-17) These verses form a hortatory application of the foregoing, with further development of the idea to live after and in the Spirit. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:13

(13) If ye through the Spirit . . .—If under the influence of the Spirit you reduce to a condition of deadness and atrophy all those practices to which the impulses of your material nature would prompt you. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:14-17

(14-17) This life in the Spirit implies a special relation to God—that of sons. I say of sons; for when you first received the Holy Ghost it was no spirit of bondage and reign of terror to which you were admitted, but rather the closest filial relation to God. This filial relation is attested by the Divine Spirit endorsing the evidence of our own consciousness, and it includes all that such a relation would naturally include—sonship, heirship, nay, a joint-heirship in the glory of Christ, who... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 8:15

(15) Spirit of bondage.—The Greek corresponds very nearly to what we should naturally understand by the English phrase, “such a spirit as would be found in slaves.” The word “spirit” varies much in meaning in these verses. Here it is the “dominant habit or frame of mind;” in the next verse it is used both for the Spirit of God and the spirit of man.Again to fear.—So as to take you back under the old terrorism of the Law. The Law, if it contained promises, was still more essentially a system of... read more

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