Romans 5:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In due time Christ died, &c.— Christ seasonably died in the stead of the ungodly. See Albert. Observ. Sacr. p. 304 and Raphel. Annot. ex Xenoph. in Romans 5:8 where he has abundantly demonstrated that the phrase υπερ ημων απεθανε, signifies, he died in our room and stead. Nor does it appear, that the phrase αποθανειν υπερ τινος, has ever any other signification than that of rescuing the life of another at the expence of our own. And the very next verse, independent on anyauthority, shews how evidently it bears thatsense here, as one can hardly imagine any one would die for a good man, unless it were to redeem his life by giving up his own.