The Love of God's Unspeakable Gift
W. Arnot. Romans 5:7-8 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.… A crew of explorers penetrate far within the Arctic circles in search of other expeditions that had gone before them — gone and never returned. Failing to find the missing men, and yet unwilling to abandon hope, they leave supplies of food, carefully covered with stones, on some prominent headlands, with the necessary intimations graven for safety on plates of brass. If the original adventurers survive, and, on their homeward journey, faint yet pursuing, fall in with these treasures, at once hidden and revealed, the food, when found, will seem to those famished men the smaller blessing. The proof which the food supplies that their country cares for them is sweeter than the food. So the proof that God cares for us is placed beyond a doubt; the "unspeakable gift" of His Son to be our Saviour should melt any dark suspicion to the contrary from our hearts. (W. Arnot.) Parallel Verses KJV: For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. WEB: For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.