Commentary on Romans

You may thus briefly untie this knot, — that the origin of the impiety which provokes God’s displeasure, is the perversity of na ...

9.And David says, etc. In this testimony of David there is also made some change in the words, but it is not what changes the me ...

fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. gentibus in hoc, ut ipsi ad aemulationem provocarentu ...

God’s blessing, despised by them, might come to the Gentiles, in order that they might at length be also stirred up to seek the ...

served to render Paul’s ministry illustrious, was advantageous to the Gentiles, whose salvation was its object. And here also he ...

Quod si primitiae sanctae, etiam conspersio; et si radix sancta etiam rami: For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also hol ...

Then to confirm this view, he adduces two similitudes: the one taken from the ceremonies of the law, and the other borrowed from ...

would it have been for the Gentiles to glory against the Jews, that is, with respect to the excellency of their race; for Paul w ...

21.For if God has not spared the natural branches, etc. This is a most powerful reason to beat down all self-confidence: for the ...

over their calamity, think first what thou hast been; for the same severity of God would have impended over thee, hadst thou not ...

But if it be asked respecting individuals, “How any one could be cut off from the grafting, and how, after excision, he could be ...

conclude, by a brief or plain sentence, a very perplexed question; and yet he declares what no one could have expected. But the ...

26.And so all Israel, etc. Many understand this of the Jewish people, as though Paul had said, that religion would again be rest ...

words God distinctly claims for himself a certain seed, so that his redemption may be effectual in his elect and peculiar nation ...

Sic et ii nunc increduli facti sunt, eo quod adepti estis misericordiam, ut ipsi quoque misericordiam consequantur.^367 Even so ...

the election of individuals, but of the common adoption of the whole nation, which might seem for a time, according to the outwa ...

the word mercy; for it intimates that God is bound to none, and that he therefore saves all freely, for they are all equally los ...

How incomprehensible, etc. By different words, according to a practice common in Hebrew, he expresses the same thing. For he spe ...

Within this limit then let every one remember to keep his own mind, lest he be carried beyond God’s oracles in investigating pre ...

deserve no layout, but that we are worthy of eternal death. And Paul not only concludes, that God owes us nothing, on account of ...