No Power Of Hell No Scheme Of Man Could Ever Pluck Me From His Hand.

For I am persuaded. This denotes a full, and strong, and affectionate persuasion, arising from the experience of the strength and sweetness of the divine love. And here he enumerates all those things which might be supposed likely to separate between Christ and believers, and concludes that it could not be done.

Neither death nor life--neither the terrors of death on the one hand nor the comforts and pleasures of life on the other, neither the fear of death nor the hope of life. Or, We shall not be separated from that love either in death or in life.

Nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers. Both the good angels and the bad are called principalities and powers: the good, Ephesians 1:21; Colossians 1:16 the bad, Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:15. And neither shall do it. The good angels will not, the bad shall not and neither can. The good angels are engaged friends, the bad are restrained enemies.

Nor things present, nor things to come--neither the sense of troubles present nor the fear of troubles to come. Time shall not separate us, eternity shall not. Things present separate us from things to come, and things to come separate and cut us off from things present but neither from the love of Christ, whose favour is twisted in with both present things and things to come.

Nor height, nor depth--neither the height of prosperity and preferment, nor the depth of adversity and disgrace nothing from heaven above, no storms, no tempests nothing on earth below, no rocks, no seas, no dungeons.

Nor any other creature--any thing that can be named or thought of. It will not, it cannot, separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. It cannot cut off or impair our love to God, or God's to us nothing does it, can do it, but sin. Observe, The love that exists between God and true believers is through Christ. He is the Mediator of our love: it is in and through him that God can love us and that we dare love God. This is the ground of the stedfastness of the love therefore God rests in his love (Zephaniah 3:17), because Jesus Christ, in whom he loves us, is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

Mr. Hugh Kennedy, an eminent Christian of Ayr, in Scotland, when he was dying, called for a Bible but, finding his sight gone, he said, "Turn me to the eighty of the Romans, and set my finger at these words, I am persuaded that neither death nor life," &c. "Now," said he, "is my finger upon them?" And, when they told him it was, without speaking any more, he said, "Now, God be with you, my children I have breakfasted with you, and shall sup with my Lord Jesus Christ this night " and so departed. - Matthew Henry