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title: 'John Murray on the Hope of Glory — Positive and Negative'
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author: 'Caleb Cangelosi'
date: 2022-03-01
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-john-murray-on-the-hope-of-glory-positive-and-negative
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# John Murray on the Hope of Glory — Positive and Negative

Commenting on Romans 5:9, John Murray writes, “It is symptomatic of the confidence expressed in \[Romans 5:2, 5\] in reference to the hope of the glory of God that the apostle should not explicate another aspect of that hope, namely, the assurance of deliverance from that which epitomizes the displeasure of God and alienation from him. It was not irrelevant for the apostle to speak in terms of negation as well as affirmation. The hope of glory is negative as well as positive. In order to be positive it must be negative of all that sin entails. In order to be salvation *to* it must be salvation *from*. And nothing sums up this ‘*from*’ more significantly than the concept of the wrath of God. It was a virile conception of God that the apostle entertained and, because so, it was one that took account of the terror of God’s wrath. Salvation from the future exhibition of that terror was an ingredient of the hope of glory.” — [John Murray](/authors/john-murray), *Commentary on Romans*, 171