SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:8
Mas Dios encarece su caridad para con nosotros, en que siendo an pecadores, el Cristo muri por nosotros.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Romans 5:8
Verse 8. But God commendeth his love, &c.] sunisthsi: God hath set this act of infinite mercy in the most conspicuous light, so as to recommend it to the notice and admiration of all. While we were yet sinners] We were neither righteous nor good; but impious and wicked. See the preceding verse, and see the note on ver. 6.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. But God commendeth his love towards us , etc..] That is, he hath manifested it, which was before hid in his heart; he has given clear evidence of it, a full proof and demonstration of it; he has so confirmed it by this instance, that there is no room nor reason to doubt of it; he has illustrated and set it off with the greater lustre by this circumstance of it, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us . God's elect were sinners in Adam, in whom they were naturally and federally, as all mankind were; hence polluted and guilty; and so they are in their own persons whilst unregenerate: they are dead in sin, and live in it, commit it, are slaves unto it, and are under the power and dominion of it; and many of them are the chief and vilest of sinners; and such they were considered when Christ died for them: but are not God's people sinners after conversion? yes; but sin has not the dominion over them; their life is not a course of sinning, as before; and besides, they are openly justified and pardoned, as well as renewed, and sanctified, and live in newness of life; so that their characters now are taken, not from their worse, but better part. And that before conversion is particularly mentioned here, to illustrate the love of God to them, notwithstanding this their character and condition; and to show that the love of God to them was very early; it anteceded their conversion; it was before the death of Christ for them; yea, it was from everlasting: and also to express the freeness of it, and to make it appear, that it did not arise from any loveliness in them; or from any love in them to him; nor from any works of righteousness done by them, but from his own sovereign will and pleasure.
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
συνιστησιν 4921 5719 V-PAI-3S δε 1161 CONJ την 3588 T-ASF εαυτου 1438 F-3GSM αγαπην 26 N-ASF εις 1519 PREP ημας 2248 P-1AP ο 3588 T-NSM θεος 2316 N-NSM οτι 3754 CONJ ετι 2089 ADV αμαρτωλων 268 A-GPM οντων 5607 5752 V-PXP-GPM ημων 2257 P-1GP χριστος 5547 N-NSM υπερ 5228 PREP ημων 2257 P-1GP απεθανεν 599 5627 V-2AAI-3S
Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. Commendeth. See on iii. 5. Note the present tense. God continuously establishes His love in that the death of Christ remains as its most striking manifestation.His love (eautou). Rev., more literally, His own. Not in contrast with human love, but as demonstrated by Christ's act of love.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
5:8 {His own love} (tn heautou agapen). See #Joh 3:16 as the best comment here. {While we were yet sinners} (eti hamartwlwn ontwn). Genitive absolute again. Not because we were Jews or Greeks, rich or poor, righteous or good, but plain sinners. Cf. #Lu 18:13, the plea of the publican, "moi t"i hamart"l"i."
