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reconciliation. Glorying as to love, which means something more [than merely reconciliation ] follows upon the reconciliation and deliverance from wrath.1
12. A/d wherefore) This has regard to the whole of the preceding discussion, from which the apostle draws these con- clusions concerning sin and righteousness, herein making not so much a digression as a regression. In imitation of Paul’s method, we must treat, in the first place, of actual sin, according to the first and following chapters, and then go hack to the source in which sin originated. Paul does not speak altogether expressly of that which theologians call original sin ; but, in truth the sin of Adam is sufficient to demonstrate man’s guilt ; the very many, and most mournful fruits resulting from it, are sufficient for the demonstration of man’s habitual corruption. And man, in con- sequence of justification,, at length looks back upon, and appre- hends the doctrine concerning the origin of evil, and the other things connected with it. This second part, however, is in special connection with the first part of this chapter ; comp, the much more , which reigns [ver. 1 7] on both sides [i.e. grace reign- ing and triumphing abundantly over both original sin and habi- tual corruption ] ; ver. 9, etc., 15, etc., for the very glorying of believers is exhibited; comp. ver. 11 [we glory , or Engl. vers, we joy] with ver. 21. The equality, too, of Jews and Gentiles, and consequently of all men, is herein included. — ue^sp, as) The Protasis, which the words and so continue ; for it is not so also that follows [which would follow, if the apodosis began here]. The apodosis, from a change in the train of thoughts and words, is concealed in what follows. — uvOpuKou, man) Why is nothing said of the woman f Ans. 1. Adam had received the command- ment. 2. He was not only the Head of his race, but also of Eve. 3. If Adam had not listened to the voice of his wife, not more than one would have sinned. Moreover, why is nothing said of Satan, wdio is the primary cause of sin ? Ans. 1. Satan is opposed to God ; Adam to Christ ; moreover, here the economy of grace is described as it belongs to Christ, rather than as it be- longs to God : therefore, God is once mentioned, ver. 1 5 ; Satan
1 The atonement , Engl. Yers. But t»j v implies “ the reconciliation,” already spoken of ver. 10, reconciled. — Ed.
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