Commentary on Romans

be applied to what is said in this passage, — that faith adorns us with the righteousness of another, which it seeks as a gift f ...

the punishment is still retained by God. But the Prophet not only declares that our sins are covered, that is, removed from the ...

as well as the dispensation of God’s grace: for inasmuch as whatever is declared, either of the righteousness of works or of the ...

on the order of causes and effects; for the cause is always before its effect; and righteousness was possessed by Abraham before ...

spiritual circumcision as the work of divine power, as you will find in Deuteronomy 30:6, where he says, “The Lord will circumci ...

sufficient, without the aid of anything else? Let us then beware, lest any of us, by halving things, blend together the two mode ...

under this word world, the restoration which was expected through Christ. The chief thing was indeed the restoration of life; it ...

promises would be rendered void; for they avail nothing but when received by faith. If our adversaries had ears to hear this one ...

transgression here is not a mere act of sin, but a willful determination to violate what is right.^141 The particle, οὖ, where, ...

of what the promises contain. Hence, also, we may easily learn, that grace is not to be taken, as some imagine, for the gift of ...

capable of grace, does wrong to Abraham, whose faith was sustained by this thought, — that it matters not whether he was dead or ...

yet in hope relied on the promise of God; and he thought it a sufficient reason for hoping, that the Lord had promised, however ...

And that the body of Abraham was become through age incapable of generating, at the time he received the Lord’s blessing, is qui ...

man an hundred years old, and to a woman of ninety; for in his astonishment he fully admitted the power of God’s word. On the ot ...

applies it, especially, to the accomplishment of his word: for the hand of God is ever ready to execute whatever he has declared ...

of obtaining righteousness is described, which is ever the same with regard to all; and it is what belonged to the common father ...

is, that when we possess the benefit of Christ’s death and resurrection, there is nothing wanting to the completion of perfect r ...

CHAPTER 5 Romans 5:1-2 Iustificatus ergo ex fide, pacem habemus apud Deum per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum; Therefore being j ...

communicated to us by the gospel; for the gospel is the ministry of reconciliation, by the means of which we are in a manner bro ...

Neque id modo, sed gloriamur^154 etiam in afflictionibus; scientes quod tribulatio patientiam efficiat; And not only so, but we ...