Commentary on Romans

men hear anything of what Scripture teaches respecting predestination, they are especially entangled with very many impediments. ...

15.For he saith to Moses, etc.^296 With regard to the elect, God cannot be charged with any unrighteousness; for according to hi ...

16.It is not then of him who wills, etc. From the testimony adduced he draws this inference, that beyond all controversy our ele ...

Paul, when the refutation was at hand and easy, would have suffered the Scripture to be treated with gross mockery? But such sub ...

do some render this passage, — that Pharaoh was preserved for a time; for his beginning is what is spoken of here. For, seeing m ...

foreknowledge, falls to the ground: for Paul teaches us, that the ruin of the wicked is not only foreseen by the Lord, but also ...

in Greek according to this meaning, — “Who art thou who enterest into a dispute with God?” But there is not much difference in t ...

Jeremiah, than that Israel was in the hand of the Lord, so that he could for his sins wholly break him in pieces, as a potter th ...

reprobate than in the salvation of the elect. He does not indeed give a reason for divine election, so as to assign a cause why ...

23.That he might also make known the riches of his glory, etc. I doubt not but the two particles καὶ ἵνα, is an instance of a co ...

Et quemadmodum prius dix erat Iesaias, Nisi Dominus Sabbaoth. Reliquisset nobis semen, And as Esaias said before, Except the Lo ...

not without reason; for since the Jews so provoked God’s wrath by their sins, that they deserved to be rejected by him, no hope ...

hope of favor; yet he confined it to a few. But as the Prophet predicted of his own time, let us see how could Paul rightly appl ...

29.And as Isaiah had before said, etc.^314 He brings another testimony from the first chapter, where the Prophet deplores the de ...

was engaged on a difficult point, he introduced a question, and, as though he were in doubt, asked what might be said on the sub ...

and then, that when repeated in the second clause, it is to be taken in another sense, as signifying the model or the rule of ri ...

this stumbling does not properly belong to Christ viewed in himself; but, on the contrary, it is what happens through the wicked ...

CHAPTER 10 Romans 10:1-4 Fratres, benevolentia certe cordis mei, et deprecatio ad Deum super Israel, est in salutem. Brethren, ...

attempted to destroy and extinguish the gospel; and yet they had the same defense as that in which we confidently glory. Away th ...

The Apostle obviates here an objection which might have been made against him; for the Jews might have appeared to have kept the ...