What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
31. What then, etc. The subject discussed having been sufficiently proved, he now breaks out into exclamations, by which he sets forth the magnanimity with which the faithful ought to be furnished when adversities urge them to despond. And he teaches us in these words that with the paternal favor of God is connected that invincible courage which overcomes all temptations.
Paul throws down the gauntlet here: if God be for us, who can prevail against us? All His attributes, all His promises, all that He is and has, stands for His people. Even when He seems to act against them, He remains for them.
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Commenting on Romans 8:31-39
What shall we then say to these things? &c. Either to these afflictions, shall we murmur and repine at them? no, since they work together for our good, and are not to be compared with our future glory, which is certain; for if we suffer with, and for Christ, we shall be glorified together: or to these blessings just now mentioned, as the foreknowledge of...