Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. (k) From affliction and destruction.
Much more then being now justified by his blood,.... The apostle here argues from justification by Christ to salvation by him, there being a certain and inseparable connection between these two; whoever is justified shall be saved; and speaks of justification "as being now by his blood".
As if the apostle had said, "He that loved us when we were enemies, will not damn us now we are his children. He that reconciled us to himself by his Son's death, that is, for the sake of his Son's sufferings, and satisfaction, will certainly save us from wrath to come by his life, or for the sake of his prevailing intercession;" If when...