Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. is an eternal mystery which the heart of man cannot yet conceive, but of which Holy Scripture gives here and there short glimpses. Like the righteousness, the truth and the life of God (Ephesians 4:18), it has its hidden source in the Father, it is manifested in the Son, it is reflected in man (John 17:22). Of this glory man was from the first designed to partake (1 Corinthians 11:7), but by sin all men "come short" or suffer loss of it (Romans 3:23); its restoration is wrought by the Spirit revealing and imparting the glory of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18). In presenting this glory as an object of the believer's hope, the apostle points to its future perfection in the glorification of our whole nature, body, soul, and spirit. The glory in which man will be thus transfigured will be the glory of God, even as the sunshine resting upon earth is still the light of heaven; it will be an everlasting glory, just because man will dwell forever in the light of God's countenance. (Archdn. Gifford.) Parallel Verses KJV: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. |
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