Commentary on Romans

Corde enim creditur in justitiam, ore fit confessio in salutem. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with t ...

“Since no man can attain the righteousness prescribed in the law, except he fulfills strictly every part of it, and since of thi ...

Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend? etc. Moses mentions heaven and the sea, as places remote and difficult of access to me ...

keep themselves: for it is the same as though he had bidden them to be satisfied with the word only, and reminded them, that in ...

adorns him with his own power, acknowledging him to be such an one as he is given by the Father, and described in the gospel. Ex ...

is necessary to complete salvation; for no one can believe with the heart without confessing with the mouth: it is indeed a nece ...

But though this reason is sufficiently strong, he yet strengthens it by the testimony of the Prophet Joel; which, according to t ...

and where faith is, the seed of the word has preceded; where there is preaching there is the calling of God. Now where his calli ...

enough for us to bear this only in mind, that the gospel does not fall like rain from the clouds, but is brought by the hands of ...

rendered it, ἀκοὴν — hearing, and the Latins, auditum — hearing; incorrectly indeed, but with no ambiguity in the meaning. We no ...

Iesaias autem audet et dicit, Inventus sum a non quaerentibus me, conspicuus factus sum iis qui me non interrogabant. But Esaia ...

the same thing is mentioned twice in this passage, it seems to me probable, that the heavens are introduced as declaring by what ...

work of God, as they are regenerated by his Spirit, and renewed after his image. Now from the word foolish, we learn that all th ...

a father who stretches forth his arms, ready to receive his son kindly into his bosom. And he says daily, that it might not seem ...

CHAPTER 11 Romans 11:1-6 Dico igitur, Num abjecit Deus populum suum? absit: etenim ego Israelita sum, ex genere Abrahae, tribu ...

any perfidiousness of men, was wholly unreasonable; for Paul holds this as a fixed principle, that since adoption is gratuitous ...

says to the Galatians, that they had been known by God, (Galatians 4:9); for he had anticipated them with his favor, so as to ca ...

for their utter ruin, because he thought that the religion and worship of God had perished among them: but he was mistaken in ch ...

power whom he has chosen with no regard to any merit. The election of grace is a Hebrew idiom for gratuitous election. If throu ...

Quemadmodum scriptum est, Dedit illis Deus spiritum compunctionis, oculos ut non (According as it is written, God hath given th ...