As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
36. As it is written, etc. This testimony adds no small weight to the subject; for he intimates, that the dread of death is so far from being a reason to us for falling away, that it has been almost ever the lot of God’s servants to have death as it were present before their eyes.
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
As it is written, for thy sake we are killed,.... This passage is a citation out of Psa 44:22; and the meaning is, that for the sake of God, and his pure worship, Old Testament saints were frequently put to death, or exposed to the persecutions of men, which often issued in death; as New Testament saints have been, for the sake of Christ and...