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John Darby's Synopsis of the New
Testament
Romans 13
Among themselves Christians are exhorted not to seek the
high things of this world, but to walk as brethren with those
of low degree: a precept too much forgotten in the assembly of
God-to her loss. If the Christian of high degree requires that
honour according to the flesh should be paid him, let it be
done with good will. Happy he who, according to the example of
the King of kings and to the precept of our apostle, knows how
to walk in company with those of low degree in their journey
through the wilderness. Now love is the fulfilling of the law;
for love works no ill to his neighbour, and so fulfils the
law.
Another principle acts also on the spirit of the Christian.
It is time to awake. The deliverance from this present evil
age, which the Lord will accomplish for us, draws nigh. The
night is far spent, the day is at hand-God knows the moment.
The characteristics which marked its approach in the days of
the apostle have ripened in a very different way since then,
although God, with a view to those whom He is gathering in, is
still even now restraining them. Let us then walk as children
of the day, casting off the works of darkness. We belong to
the day, of which Christ Himself will be the light. Let our
walk be in accordance with that day, putting on Christ
Himself, and not being studious of that which is in accordance
with the will and the lusts of the flesh.
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