Commentary on Romans

become the means of generating patience; yea, those tribulations, which in the obstinate can produce nothing but indignation and ...

love towards us is so abounding that it fills our hearts; and being thus spread through every part of them, it not only mitigate ...

here, which is from the greater to the less, and which he afterwards pursues more at large: and though he has not woven the thre ...

8.But God confirms,etc. The verb, συνίστησι, has various meanings; that which is most suitable to this place is that of confirmi ...

much more influential and efficacious will be his life.^162 We hence have ample proofs to strengthen our hearts with confidence ...

mors; atque ita in omnes homines mors pervagata est. quandoquidem omnes peccaverunt: (Nam usque ad legem peccatum erat in mundo ...

bring, from our mother’s womb, though it brings not forth immediately its own fruits, is yet sin before God, and deserves his ve ...

But sin is not imputed, etc. Without the law reproving us, we in a manner sleep in our sins; and though we are not ignorant that ...

in their condemnation. It hence appears, that death even then reigned; for the blindness and obduracy of men could not stifle th ...

by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 15.But not as the offense, etc. Now follows the rectifying ...

When he says, by the offense of one, etc., understand him as meaning this, — that corruption has from him descended to us: for w ...

He sets gift in opposition to judgment: by the latter he means strict justice; by the former, gratuitous pardon. From strict jus ...

difference is, that the benefit of Christ does not come to all men, while Adam has involved his whole race in condemnation; and ...

in my judgment, for remission, which restores life to us, as though he called it life-giving.^175 For whence comes the hope of s ...

Lex vero intervenit, ut abundaret delictum; ubi vero abundavit delictum, superabundavit et gratia: Moreover the law entered, th ...

Grace has superabounded. After sin has held men sunk in ruin, grace then comes to their help: for he teaches us, that the abunda ...

CHAPTER 6 Romans 6:1-2 Quid ergo dicemus? manebimus in peccato, ut gratia abundet? What shall we say then? Shall we continue in ...

render God propitious to us by his expiation, in any other way than by making us partakers of his Spirit, who renews us to a hol ...

4.We have then been buried with him,etc. He now begins to indicate the object of our having been baptized into the death of Chri ...

also as to other benefits which we receive from the resurrection of Christ, should be highly commended to us.^186 Romans 6:5-6 ...