Commentary on Romans

Romans 14:22-23 Tu fidem habes? apud teipsum habe coram Deo. Beatus qui non judicat seipsum in eo quod examinat. Hast thou fait ...

But he who is undecided, etc. He very fitly expresses in one word the character of that mind which vacillates and is uncertain ...

CHAPTER 15 436 Romans 15:1-3 Debemus autem nos qui potentes sumus, infirmitates impotentium portare, et non placere nobis ipsis ...

— and then, that in endeavoring to accommodate ourselves to our brethren, we ought to have regard to God, so that our object may ...

Ut uno animo, uno ore, glorificetis Deum et Patrem Domini nostri Iesu Christi. That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify ...

But after having admonished and exhorted the Romans as to what they were to do, he turns to pray for them: for he fully understo ...

Et rursum, Laudate Dominum omnes Gentes, et collaudate eum omnes populi. And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud ...

belonged by covenant to the Jews; for by his coming he fulfilled what the Father had formerly promised to Abraham, and thus he b ...

unknown. It is then a prophecy most suitable to prove the calling of the Gentiles; and this appears still more evident from the ...

God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Gentium acceptabilis, sanctif ...

this instance the singular modesty of this holy man, to whom nothing was more acceptable than to be thought of no account, provi ...

himself of the opportunity of using this metaphor. Let then the preachers of the gospel have this end in view while discharging ...

I have then, etc. After having in general commended his own calling, that the Romans might know that he was a true and undoubte ...

19.So that from Jerusalem, etc. He joins also a testimony from the effect; for the success which followed his preaching exceeded ...

Hence the apostleship of Paul was made evident from this circumstance, — that this prophecy was fulfilled in him.^457 It is absu ...

From this passage is drawn a weak argument respecting his going to Spain. It does not indeed immediately follow that he performe ...

Scio autem quod quum venero ad vos, in plenitudine benedictionis evangelii Christi venturus sum. And I am sure that, when I com ...

28.And sealed to them this fruit, etc. I disapprove not of what some think, that there is here an allusion to a practice among t ...

Ut liberer ab incredulis in Iudea, et ut ministerium meum quod suscipio erga Ierusalem acceptum sit sanctis; That I may be deli ...

give a literal rendering: for by the word strive, or contend, he alludes to the difficulties by which he was oppressed, and by b ...