ローマ人への手紙 6:21
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
注釈
Study Note
Paul's rhetorical question — 'What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death' — deploys the harvest metaphor to expose the retroactive bankruptcy of pre-conversion life. The present shame about past conduct (described in verses 19-20 as 'servants to uncleanness') becomes itself evidence of moral progress: only those whose conscience has been renewed can recognise past slavery as shameful. The pairing 'fruit…death' inverts Galatians 5:22-23's 'fruit of the Spirit' whose end is life, creating a structural antithesis that encapsulates Paul's two-ages soteriology. The verse is pastorally significant because it validates rather than suppresses the convert's memory of shame as evidence of genuine transformation.
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What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
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What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
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