Commentary on Romans

CHAPTER 12 Romans 12:1-2 Obsecro itaque vos fratres, per miserationes Dei, ut sistatis corpora vestra I beseech you therefore, ...

except we, after having found a Father so kind and bountiful, do strive in our turn to dedicate ourselves wholly to him.^377 And ...

holiness, not only as to the body, but also as to the soul and spirit, as in 1 Thessalonians 5:23. In bidding us to present our ...

Now attend here, and see what kind of renovation is required from us: It is not that of the flesh only, or of the inferior part ...

to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 3.For I say, through the grace, etc. If you thi ...

not suffer to go unpunished. It is often to be seen, with what insane trifles they are led away, who, by foolish ambition, proce ...

similitude has various parts, it is yet to be chiefly thus applied to our present subject, — that as the members of the same bod ...

But this passage is variously understood. There are those who consider that by prophecy is meant the gift of predicting, which p ...

As to the other clauses there is less difficulty. Let him who is ordained a minister, he says, execute his office in ministering ...

needful for them who ought to watch day and night for the wellbeing of the whole community. Yet the state of things at that time ...

may be the case, he subjoins a precept very necessary for the preservation of benevolence, — that every one is to give honor to ...

present blessings, and to ground our joy on earth and on earthly things, as though our happiness were based on them; and he bids ...

Mutuo alii in altos sensu affecti, non arroganter de vobis sentientes, sed humilibus vos 16.Be of the same mind one toward ano ...

is envy; and not to grieve for his misfortunes is inhumanity. Let there be such a sympathy among us as may at the same time adap ...

Non vosmetipsos ulciscentes, dilecti; sed date locum irae; scriptum est enim, Mihi vindictam, et ego rependam, dicit Dominus. D ...

gospel. The second caution is, — that courteousness should not degenerate into compliance, so as to lead us to flatter the vices ...

cause oppress his servants. “He who touches you,” he says, “touches the pupil of mine eye.” With this consolation then we ought ...

tame him, he shall yet be burnt and tormented by the testimony of his own conscience, on finding himself overwhelmed with our ki ...

CHAPTER 13 Romans 13:1-2 Omnis anima potestatibus supereminentibus subdita sit: non enim est Let every soul be subject unto the ...

And by mentioning every soul, he removes every exception, lest any one should claim an immunity from the common duty of obedienc ...