The Wages of Sin

Abstract

"When the apostle wrote ‘the wages of sin is death’ (Rom. vi. 23) he presented us with something of an enigma. For in fact a man does not die (in the ordinary sense of death) as soon as he sins, nor usually in recognizable connection with his sin. We can say, of course, that spiritual death is meant, but what are we to understand by that’? Men who sin do quite often give evidence of achievement in what is rather loosely defined as the realm of the spirit of man, and again, the expression must be qualified by reference to the immortality of the soul. In view of such uncertainties it may be well to make a new survey of New Testament teaching on the subject of death."