Having commenced this section of the letter with a bold assertion about the certain hope of those who have been justified by faith, enabling them to boast even in the midst of their present sufferings (5:1–11), Paul now concludes it by reasserting their status as those whom God has justified (8:33; cf.

The message of the gospel does not explain the inexplicable, or restrict its comfort only to those sufferings that are uniquely Christian sufferings, experienced as the direct outworking of the faithfulness of believers. Gorman, Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), 328–29, Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015), 283 and Siu Fung Wu, Suffering in Romans (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2015), 193–94. Within a context of this sort, the protest of the psalmist is that these events have come on the nation not because of their own sin but “because of you” (v.Its effect is not to silence the voice of lament or to convert it into some better, more Christian utterance; it is, rather, to offer assurance that the voice of the lamenter, and of the whole groaning creation, has been heard (and, indeed, that in the groanings of the Spirit the burden of the lament has been shared by God himself) and that it will ultimately find its answer through what God has already accomplished in the death and resurrection of Jesus. As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. A plausible explanation is needed, too, for why it is this text of Scripture that Paul has chosen to cite, when so many others could have proved the required point without the need for such a radical transformation of their original force. Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love”), and that they would have understood the summons of the psalm, in light of the gospel, as having been “answered by the God who raises the dead in the Christ-age. As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.

It's like real life, no doubt, to be attached to people and then, decades later, to be attached to others, and perhaps that's the point of this epic. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. Our protective daily moisturiser features a photo-stable sunscreen to prevent damage from UVB and UVA rays (SPF50) along with a blue light filter that shields skin from the high energy visible light emitted by smartphones and screens.The score of this motet is available from Shorter House both individually and as part of an anthology. The final section of the article argues for a reading of Romans 8:36 in which the psalm-citation retains its original force and meaning as an expression of protest and lament, reinforcing the validity of the question in verse 35 before Paul answers it in verse 37. v. 30) and assuring them that “neither death, nor life … nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (8:38–39). Paul wants the Christians in Rome to have the right perspective on the circumstances of their daily lives. But ‘all the day long’ refers to a certain day or ‘the day’, so it could mean 24 hours of that day or from morning till night on that day.