Luómǎshū 8:36

36 Rú jìng shàng suǒ jì , wǒmen wéi nǐde yuángù , zhōng rì beì shā . rén kàn wǒmen rú jiāng zǎi de yáng

Luómǎshū 8:36 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 8:36

As it is written, for thy sake we are killed
This passage is a citation out of ( Psalms 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 his Gospel, even

all the day long;
that is, they were liable to death all the day long; or every day, one or other of them was put to death:

we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter;
they were reckoned as fit for nothing else, and were continually exposed unto it; were used as sheep are, as if they were made for no other use and service, but to be slaughtered; hence they are called, "the flock of slaughter", ( Zechariah 11:7 ) ; and as this expresses the brutality of their persecutors, so their harmlessness, meekness, humility, and patience in sufferings, being under them like lambs or sheep. This testimony is produced, to show that suffering death has been the common lot of the saints in all ages: and is designed to animate the people of God under the Gospel dispensation, to suffer with cheerfulness; the allusion may be to the lambs and sheep daily slain for sacrifice; either to the lambs of the sacrifice slain morning and evening; or to others that were slain in any part of the day from morning to night, for other sacrifices, in the court of the tabernacle and temple.

Luómǎshū 8:36 In-Context

34 Shuí néng déng tāmende zuì ne . yǒu Jīdū Yēsū yǐjing sǐ le , érqiĕ cóng sǐ lǐ fùhuó , xiànjīn zaì shén de yòubiān , yĕ tì wǒmen qíqiú . ( yǒu Jīdū yúnyún huò zuò shì yǐjing sǐ le érqiĕ cóng sǐ lǐ fùhuó xiànjīn zaì shén de yòubiān yĕ tì wǒmen qíqiú de Jīdū Yēsū má )

35 Shuí néng shǐ wǒmen yǔ Jīdū de aì géjué ne . nándào shì huànnàn má , shì kùnkǔ má , shì bīpò má , shì jī è má , shì chìshēnlòutǐ má , shì wēixiǎn má , shì dāo jiàn má .

36 Rú jìng shàng suǒ jì , wǒmen wéi nǐde yuángù , zhōng rì beì shā . rén kàn wǒmen rú jiāng zǎi de yáng

37 Ránér kào zhe wǒmen de zhǔ , zaì zhè yīqiè de shì shàng , yǐjing déshèng yǒuyú le .

38 Yīnwei wǒ shēnxìn wúlùn shì shēng , shì tiānshǐ , shì zhǎngquán de , shì yǒu néng de , shì xiànzaì de shì , shì jiānglái de shì ,