Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 8:38

38. For I am perswaded , that neither death, nor life , nor angels , nor principalities, nor powers , nor things present, nor things to come .

Or I am fully assured, not by any special Revelation, but by the same spirit of Faith, which is common to all Believers, 2 Cor. 4.13.

i. e. Neither fear of death, nor hope of life.

1. The Evil Angels; for the Good Angels would not attempt the Separating us from the love of Christ. There are some, that think the Good Angels to be also here intended; and they understand it by way of Supposition. q▪ d. If they should endeavour such a thing, they would never Effect it; and thus they make the Apostle here to Argue, as he doth in another Place, Gal. 1.8.

Some would have the Evil Angels to be here intended, and the Good Angels in what went before; in Col. 2.15. they are thus termed: But others, by Principalities and Powers, do rather understand Persecuting Princes, and Potentates.

i. e. The Evils and Pressures that are upon us now, or that shall be upon us hereafter. He makes no mention of the things past, for they are overcome already.

Marginal references: Eph. 1.21. & 6.12. Col. 1.16. 1 Pet. 3.22.