is never mentioned. 2. What has Satan to do with the grace of Christ % — i] d/uapria — 6 Qdvarog , sin — death ) These are two distinct evils, which Paul discusses successively at very great length. — tig rbv xoff/uov) into this world , which denotes the human race — ei<rvj\6 s, entered ) began to exist in the world ; for it had not pre- viously existed outside of the world. — xai did, and by) Therefore, death could not have entered before sin. — y,ai ovrwg) and so, namely, by one man. — s ig) unto [or upon\ all, wholly. — dirjXdev, passed) when sin once entered, which had not been in the world from the beginning. — If f) 9jzf w with the verb ripaprov has the same signification, as did with the genitive, rr\g d^upr'iag. The meaning is, through the fact that , or in other words, inasmuch as all have sinned, comp, the If f>, 2 Cor. v. 4, and presently after, the other Ini', occurring in ver. 14. — tfdvrsg) all without exception. The question is not about the particular sin of indi- viduals ; but in the sin of Adam all have sinned, as all died in the death of Christ for their salvation, 2 Cor. v. 15. The Targum on Ruth, eh. iv., at the end : by On account of the counsel, which the serpent gave to Eve, all the inhabitants of the earth became sub- ject to death, Targum on Eccl. ch. vii., at the end.
The serpent and Eve made the day of death rush suddenly upon man and upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Sin precedes death ; but the universality of death becomes known earlier than the universality of sin. This plan of arrangement is adopted with respect to the four clauses in this verse.
13. ” A%pi, until) Sin was in the world, not only after the law was given by Moses, but also during the whole period before the law from Adam down to Moses, during which latter period sinners sinned without the law, ch. ii. 12, for the condition of all before Moses, and of the Gentiles subsequently [after Moses’ time], was equal ; but this sin was not, properly speaking, the cause of death : because there is no imputation of sin without the law, and consequently there is no death ; comp. ver. 20. The sin committed by Adam, entailing evil on all, is called the sin (f df^apriu) twice in the preceding verse ; now, in this verse, sin in general is called d^aprlu without the article. — ovx. IXXoy'brui, is not imputed) The apostle is not speaking here of men’s negli- gence, which disregards sin in the absence of a law, but of the Divine judgment, because sin is not usually taken into any