Commentary on Romans

before God; the first, when he chooses and calls us from nothing through gratuitous goodness, as there is nothing in our nature ...

Romans 2:14-16 Quum enim Gentes, quæ Legem non habent, natura quæ Legis sunt faciant, ipsæ, Legem non habentes, sibi ipsæ sunt ...

convinced that God ought to be worshipped? Why were they ashamed of adultery and theft, except that they deemed them evils? With ...

16.In which God shall judge the secrets of men^75 Most suitable to the present occasion is this periphrastic definition of judgm ...

Eruditorem insipientium, doctorem imperitorum, habentem formam cognitionis ac veritatis in Lege: An instructer of the foolish, ...

these things to me, yet it cannot be denied but that a danger of this kind was connected with such disturbed state of things. Wh ...

form is put for model (exemplar — pattern);^81 for Paul has adopted μόρφωσιν and not τύπον: but he intended, I think, to point o ...

the gospel were not a rule of life. That we may not then so heedlessly trifle with the Lord, let us remember what sort of judgme ...

It was then a monstrous thing, that they who derived their glory from God should have disgraced his holy name; for it behoved th ...

expose their gross error, as he does in his Epistle to the Galatians. And this ought to be carefully noticed; for if he were exp ...

a keeper of the law, shall judge thee who art a transgressor, though he is uncircumcised, and thou hast the literal circumcision ...

CHAPTER 3 Romans 3:1-2 Quae igitur praerogativa Iudaei, aut quae utilitas circumcisionis? What advantage^87 then hath the Jew? ...

Now the oracles were committed to them, for the purpose of preserving them as long as it pleased the Lord to continue his glory ...

4.But let God be true, etc. Whatever may be the opinion of others, I regard this as an argument taken from the necessary consequ ...

The application then of this passage is the following: Since all the sins of mortals must serve to illustrate the glory of the L ...

Si enim veritas Dei per meum mendacium excelluit in ejus gloriam; quid etiammum et ego velut peccator judicor; For if the truth ...

A similar declaration is found in Job 34:17, — “Should he who hates judgment exercise power?” For though there are found among m ...

be ascribed to the Providence of God, and not to the wickedness of man; through which it comes not, that the majesty of God is n ...

what he had said before, (for he now strips those of all dignity to whom he had attributed so much,) there is yet no discord; fo ...

Quorum os execratione et amarulentia plenum: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Veloces pedes eorum ad effundendum ...