SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:10
Porque si siendo enemigos, fuimos reconciliados con Dios por la muerte de su Hijo, mucho ms, ya reconciliados, seremos salvos por su vida.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 5:10
Verse 10. For if, when we were enemies] See under ver. 6. We were reconciled] The enmity existing before rendered the reconciliation necessary. In every human heart there is a measure of enmity to holiness, and, consequently to the author of it. Men seldom suspect this; for one property of sin is to blind the understanding, so that men do not know their own state.
We shall be saved by his life.] For, as he died for our sins, so he rose again for our justification; and his resurrection to life, is the grand proof that he has accomplished whatever he had purposed in reference to the salvation of man. 2. This may be also understood of his life of intercession: for it is written. He ever LIVETH to make INTERCESSION for us, Heb. vii. 25. Through this life of intercession at the right hand of God we are spared and blessed. 3. And it will not be amiss to consider that, as our salvation implies the renovation of our nature, and our being restored to the image of God, so, swqhsomeqa en th zwn autou, may be rendered: we shall be saved IN his life; for, I suppose, it is pretty generally agreed, that the life of God in the soul of man is essential to its salvation.
4. The example also of the life of Christ is a means of salvation. He hath left us an example that we should follow his steps: and he that followeth him, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of LIFE, John viii. 12.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. For if when we were enemies , etc..] For the further illustration of the love of God expressed to sinners, by the death of his Son, the state and condition God's elect were in when Christ died for them is taken notice of; they were enemies; to God, to his being, perfections, purposes, and providences; to Christ, to his person, offices, grace, and righteousness; to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit, and his divine operations and influences; to the people of God, and to the Gospel and ordinances of Christ; which enmity is deeply rooted in their minds, is causeless, and undeserved, and is implacable, and irreconcileable without the power and grace of God; which grace of God is wonderfully displayed in the reconciliation of such persons, by the death of his Son . Reconciliation implies a former state of friendship, a breach of that friendship, and a making of it up again; which no ways contradicts the everlasting and unchangeable love of God to his people; for this is not a reconciliation of God to them, but of them to God: we were reconciled to God ; not God to us; and this reconciliation is for their sins, an atonement for them, rather than of their persons; which being done, their persons are reconciled, not to the love, grace, and mercy of God, or to his affections, in which they always had a share, but to the justice of God injured and offended by their sins; and so both justice and holiness on one side, and love, grace, and mercy on the other, are reconciled together, in the business of their salvation; which is brought about by the sufferings and death of Christ: this expresses the wonderful love of God, since this reconciliation arises purely from himself; the scheme of it is of his own contriving; he, whose justice was affronted, and whose law was broken, took the first step towards it, and conducted the whole affair; and which was effected at the expense of the blood and life of his own Son, and that for persons who were enemies to them both. In consequence of this, another reconciliation of them is made by the Spirit of God in regenerations, of which notice is taken in this passage: much more being reconciled : to God, as a sovereign God, in his decrees, in his providences, and in the method of salvation by his Son; to Christ, to the way of salvation by him, so as to submit both to his righteousness for justification, and to the sceptre of his kingdom, to be ruled and governed by it; to the Spirit, so as to be led by him, to walk after him, and to depend upon him for the carrying on, and finishing the good work of grace begun in them; to the people of God, so as to love them, and delight in their company; and to the Gospel and ordinances, so as highly to value them, long after them, and take pleasure in them. Now from both these reconciliations is inferred the sure and certain salvation of persons so reconciled: we shall be saved by his life ; by the life of Christ, and which designs not so much his life as God; or his living in the hearts of his people by faith; though neither of them are to be excluded; but his life, as man, and that not either his private or public life, as man here on earth, though this has an influence upon, and a concern in the business of salvation; but more especially here is meant the interceding life of Christ in heaven, where he lives, and ever lives to make intercession for his people, and to see the salvation he has obtained by his death applied unto them, and they put into the possession of it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-11 - Christ died for sinners; not only such as were useless, but such a were guilty and hateful; such that their everlasting destruction woul be to the glory of God's justice. Christ died to save us, not in ou sins, but from our sins; and we were yet sinners when he died for us Nay, the carnal mind is not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself chap. 8:7; Col 1:21. But God designed to deliver from sin, and to wor a great change. While the sinful state continues, God loathes the sinner, and the sinner loathes God, Zec 11:8. And that for such a these Christ should die, is a mystery; no other such an instance of love is known, so that it may well be the employment of eternity to adore and wonder at it. Again; what idea had the apostle when he supposed the case of some one dying for a righteous man? And yet he only put it as a thing that might be. Was it not the undergoing thi suffering, that the person intended to be benefitted might be release therefrom? But from what are believers in Christ released by his death Not from bodily death; for that they all do and must endure. The evil from which the deliverance could be effected only in this astonishin manner, must be more dreadful than natural death. There is no evil, to which the argument can be applied, except that which the apostl actually affirms, sin, and wrath, the punishment of sin, determined by the unerring justice of God. And if, by Divine grace, they were thu brought to repent, and to believe in Christ, and thus were justified by the price of his bloodshedding, and by faith in that atonement, muc more through Him who died for them and rose again, would they be kep from falling under the power of sin and Satan, or departing finall from him. The living Lord of all, will complete the purpose of his dying love, by saving all true believers to the uttermost. Having suc a pledge of salvation in the love of God through Christ, the apostl declared that believers not only rejoiced in the hope of heaven, an even in their tribulations for Christ's sake, but they gloried in God also, as their unchangeable Friend and all-sufficient Portion, throug Christ only.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. Enemies (ecqroi). The word may be used either in an active sense, hating God, or passively, hated of God. The context favors the latter sense; not, however, with the conventional meaning of hated, denoting the revengeful, passionate feeling of human enmity, but simply the essential antagonism of the divine nature to sin. Neither the active nor the passive meaning needs to be pressed. The term represents the mutual estrangement and opposition which must accompany sin on man's part, and which requires reconciliation.We were reconciled to God (katallaghmen tw Qew). The verb means primarily to exchange; and hence to change the relation of hostile parties into a relation of peace; to reconcile. It is used of both mutual and one-sided enmity. In the former case, the context must show on which side is the active enmity.
In the Christian sense, the change in the relation of God and man effected through Christ. This involves,
1. A movement of God toward man with a view to break down man's hostility, to commend God's love and holiness to him, and to convince him of the enormity and the consequence of sin. It is God who initiates this movement in the person and work of Jesus Christ. See vers. 6, 8; 2 Cor. v. 18, 19; Eph. i. 6; 1 John iv. 19. Hence the passive form of the verb here: we were made subjects of God's reconciling act.
2. A corresponding movement on man's part toward God; yielding to the appeal of Christ's self-sacrificing love, laying aside his enmity, renouncing his sin, and turning to God in faith and obedience.
3. A consequent change of character in man; the covering, forgiving, cleansing of his sin; a thorough revolution in all his dispositions and principles.
4. A corresponding change of relation on God's part, that being removed which alone rendered Him hostile to man, so that God can now receive Him into fellowship and let loose upon him all His fatherly love and grace, 1 John i. 3, 7. Thus there is complete reconciliation. See, further, on ch. iii. 25, 26.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
5:10 {We were reconciled to God} (katellagemen twi qewi). Second aorist passive indicative of katallassw for which great Pauline word see on 2Co 5:18f. The condition is the first class. Paul does not conceive it as his or our task to reconcile God to us. God has attended to that himself (#Ro 3:25f.). We become reconciled to God by means of the death of God's Son. "Much more" again we shall be saved "by his life" (en ti z"i autou). "In his life," for he does live, "ever living to intercede for them" (#Heb 7:25).
