And if children, then heirs; there is a parallel text in Galatians 4:7. It is not so with the children of earthly princes: see 2 Chronicles 21:3. Joint-heirs with Christ; or co-heirs with Christ; he is our elder Brother, and is not ashamed to call us brethren: the inheritance is his by nature, ours by grace. If so be that we suffer with him; the cross of Christ is the condition of our heavenly inheritance. The pronoun him is not in the original, but fitly supplied in our translation. Suffering with him, is much the same with suffering for him: suffering believers do but pledge Christ in the cup that he began to them. That we may be also glorified together; or, glorified with him, not with equal glory, but according to our proportion; he was glorified in this way, Luke 24:26, and so must we. Three things are implied in our being glorified together:
1. Conformiry; we shall in some measure be like him in glory: see 1 Thessalonians 17:22 Philippians 3:21.
2. Concomitancy; we shall be present with him in glory, 1 Thessalonians 17:24 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
3. Conveyance; our glory will be from him; his glory will reflect on us, and we shall shine in his beams.