That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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Gill's Exposition
That he no longer should live,.... The Arabic version reads, "that ye no longer should live". This expresses the end of being armed with the above thought, that a suffering saint after death is clear…
Barnes' Notes
That he no longer should live - That is, he has become, through the death of Christ, dead to the world and to the former things which influenced him, in order that he should hereafter live not to the…
Adam Clarke
That he no longer should live - in the flesh - Governed by the base principle of giving up his faith to save his life; to the lusts of men - according to the will of his idolatrous persecutors; but to…
The apostle here draws a new inference from the consideration of Christ's sufferings. As he had before made use of it to persuade to patience in suffering, so here to mortification of sin. Observe,
I.…
Cambridge Bible
that he no longer should live the rest of his time The Greek form of the sentence points rather to the result than to the purpose of sufferings so borne, but the result in this case was one which…
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