Commentary on Romans

but in the latter not only we derive the vigor and nourishment of life from Christ, but we also pass from our own to his nature. ...

Qui enim mortuus est, justificatus Est a peccato. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Si vero mortui sumus cum Christo, cred ...

necessary that the former should be done once for all, and that the latter should be carried on continually: not that the flesh, ...

Christ, we ought also to live with him.” But the word believing denotes that he treats here of doctrine which is based on the pr ...

the passage; for the other clause, which he immediately subjoins respecting the members of the body, includes the soul also: and ...

Peccatum enim vobis non dominabitur, non enim estis sub Lege, sed Sub gratia. For sin shall not have dominion over you: (^193) ...

any part. In like manner, by the word grace, we are to understand both parts of redemption — the remission of sins, by which God ...

does not prevent the understanding of the subject, he preferred to express what righteousness is by the word obedience; in which ...

engraves on our hearts: and this corresponds with the prescribed rule of the law, according to which all our actions ought to be ...

as though he had said, “I might, by comparing sin and righteousness, show how much more ardently ye ought to be led to render ob ...

Romans 6:20-23 Quando enim servi fuistis peccati, liberi fuistis justitiæ. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free f ...

been standing on the very precipice of death, and had been nigh destruction; yea, that they would have already entered the gates ...

CHAPTER 7 Romans 7:1-4 Num ignoratis fratres (scientibus enim Legem loquor) quod Lex dominatur homini quamdiu vivit? Know ye no ...

question has indeed a peculiar force, as it affirms the certainty of what is spoken; for it shows that it was not a thing new or ...

when loosed from the law, to himself: Then being united to Christ risen from the dead, we ought to cleave to him alone: And as t ...

the bondage of the law; for he has offered us, together with himself, as a sacrifice to the Father, and he regenerates us for th ...

The emotions of sins,^206 which are through the law, etc.; that is, the law excited in us evil emotions, which exerted their inf ...

Romans 7:7-8 Quid ergo dicemus? Lex peccatum est? Absit: sed peccatum non cognovi nisi per Legem: What shall we say then? Is th ...

Augustine says, that Paul included in this expression the whole law; which, when rightly understood, is true: for when Moses had ...

Ego autem vivebam sine Lege aliquando (^214) adveniente autem mandato, peccatum revixit, For I was alive without the law once ...