Commentary on Romans

31.What then, etc. The subject discussed having been sufficiently proved, he now breaks out into exclamations, by which he sets ...

This passage ought to remind us of what Christ brings to us, and to awaken us to contemplate his riches; for as he is a pledge o ...

to himself, there is no doubt but that we are all encouraged to examine our calling, so that we may become assured that we are t ...

Quemadmodum scriptum est, Quod propter te morimur quotidie, reputati sumus tanquam oves mactationi destinatæ: As it is written, ...

Tribulation, or distress, or persecution?etc. The pronoun masculine which he used at the beginning of the verse, contains a hidd ...

That they might at the same time remember whence this invincible power proceeds, he again repeats what he had said before: for h ...

Nor present things, nor future things,etc. Though he speaks hyperbolically, yet he declares, that by no length of time can it be ...

CHAPTER 9 Romans 9:1-5 Veritatem dico in Christo, non mentior, testimonium simul mihi reddente mea conscientia eum Spiri-tu san ...

all that he had hitherto spoken of the law of Moses, and of the grace of Christ, was more disliked by the Jews, than that the fa ...

For I could wish, etc.He could not have expressed a greater ardour of love than by what he testifies here; for that is surely p ...

Thus I consent not to the opinion of those who think that Paul spoke these words from regard to God only, and not to men; nor do ...

was not in vain that he mentioned this as one of their praises, — that they were Israelites; for Jacob prayed for this as a grea ...

promises are to be traced up to the covenant as to their true source; in the same manner as the special helps of God, by which h ...

Christ, who is from the Jews according to the flesh, is God blessed for ever^289 And I doubt not, but that Paul, who had to cont ...

not have been wanting to the Israelites without the covenant being abolished,) he reasonably anticipates this inconsistency, and ...

in the first clause he includes the whole race, in the second he refers only to true sons, who were not become degenerated. 7.Bu ...

Non solum autem hic, sed et Rebecca, quae ex uno conceperat, patre nostro Isaac: And not only this; but when Rebecca also had c ...

of the promise. But how it thus happened, he has been either silent or has obscurely hinted. Now indeed he openly ascribes the w ...

That the purpose of God according to election, etc. He speaks of the gratuitous election of God almost in every instance. If wor ...

As it is written, Jacob I loved, etc. He confirms, by a still stronger testimony, how much the heavenly answer, given to Rebecc ...