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Bible discovery the lost apostle4/6/2023 The apostle is careful to distinguish, and to specify that this is not what man deserves, but that which is gratuitously conferred on him. Not the wages of man not that which is due to him but the mere gift and mercy of God. This stands opposed here to eternal life, and proves that one is just as enduring as the other. , "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." God will not inflict anything more than was threatened, and therefore it is just. But (2.) this is the wages of sin, because, like the pay of the soldier, it is just what was threatened. No man can conceive a more dreadful doom than for himself to be treated for ever just as he deserves to be. Sinners even in hell will be treated just as they deserve to be treated and there is not to man a more fearful and terrible consideration than this. Not a sinner will die who ought not to die. Not a pain will be inflicted on the sinner which he does not deserve. Death is thus called the wages of sin, not because it is an arbitrary, undeserved appointment, but (1.) because it is its proper desert. As applied to sin, it means that death is what sin deserves that which will be its proper reward. It means hence that which a man earns or deserves that which is his proper pay, or what he merits. The word here translated wages (οψωνια)-properly denotes what is purchased to be eaten with bread, as fish, flesh, vegetables, etc., ( Schleusner ) and thence it means the pay of the Roman soldier, because formerly it was the custom to pay the soldier in these things.
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