Commentary on Romans

philosophy respecting the liberty of the will. Let every one acknowledge himself to be the servant of sin, as he is in reality, ...

dwelling in them, though they find some remains of the flesh still remaining in them: at the same time it cannot dwell in them w ...

11.If the Spirit, etc. This is a confirmation of the last verse, derived from the efficient cause, and according to this sense, ...

Si enim secundum carnem vixeritis, moriemini: si vero Spiritu facta carnis^250 mortificaveritis, vivetis. For if ye live after ...

“all those are the sons of God who are led^252 by God’s Spirit; all the sons of God are heirs of eternal life: then all who are ...

more evident.^253 The same comparison is used by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where he says, that we have not come ...

denounces death on all transgressors. Hence, as there is the spirit of bondage under the law, which oppresses the conscience wit ...

principle, — that we do not rightly pray to God, unless we are surely persuaded in our hearts, that he is our Father, when we so ...

If so be that we suffer together, etc. Various are the interpretations of this passage, but I approve of the following in prefer ...

Quoniam ipsa quoque creatura asseretur a servitute corruptionis in libertatem gloriæ filiorum Dei. Because the creature itself ...

followed the fall of Adam, the whole machinery of the world would have instantly become deranged, and all its parts would have f ...

Romans 8:23-25 Non solum autem, sed ipsi quoque qui primordia Spiritus habemus; nos inquam ipsi in And not only they, but ourse ...

of so great a benefit.” And he requires that there should be a feeling of two kinds in the faithful: that being burdened with th ...

yea, to lie down as half-dead and to be like the dead; for they who seek a visible salvation reject it, as they renounce hope wh ...

any one to complain, that the bearing of the cross is beyond their own strength, since we are sustained by a celestial power. An ...

of our own minds.^267 And the Spirit is said to intercede, not because he really humbles himself to pray or to groan, but becaus ...

no objection that he sets down an illative particle, for it is no new thing with him to make somewhat an indiscriminate use of a ...

(^268) Paul, however, no doubt made here this express declaration, — that our salvation is based on the election of God, in orde ...

of God’s purpose. It hence follows, that this knowledge is connected with God’s good pleasure; for he foreknew nothing out of hi ...

to allow us to shun afflictions; for what is more desirable than to be reconciled to God, so that our miseries may no longer be ...