For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
6. For Christ, etc. I ventured not in my version to allow myself so much liberty as to give this rendering, “In the time in which we were weak;” and yet I prefer this sense. An argument begins here, which is from the greater to the less, and which he afterwards pursues more at large: and though he has not woven the thread of his...
All our privileges flow from Christ's precious blood; His death for us is the spring-head of justification. He died for those without strength, entirely unable to help themselves, and worse still, for the ungodly, not merely helpless but guilty, deserving to perish, yet loved with a love that surpasses all human measure.
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Commenting on Romans 5:6-21
For when we were yet without strength,.... The apostle having mentioned the love of God proceeds to give an instance, and which is a full proof and demonstration of it, which is, that in due time Christ died for the ungodly.