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ffeuffe, superabounded [ did much more abound~\ A third party con- quering the conqueror of the conquered is superior to both : sin conquered man : grace conquers sin ; therefore the power of grace is greatest.
21. ’Ei/ rip Ouvaruj — hg in death — unto life) The diffe-
rence is here exemplified between the particles sv and hg. ; Death has its limits and boundary, whereas life is everlasting, and [by divine power] divinely extended. Death is not said to be eter- nal ; whereas life is said to be eternal, ch. vi. 21, etc. — jj ydp/g (3ctffi\ev<fri, that grace might reign) Grace therefore has had, as it were, no reign, that is, it has had a most brief reign before the fall. We may believe, that Adam sinned not long after that he was created. — Tjj <rou, Jesus) Now no longer is Adam even mentioned : the mention of Christ alone prevails.
1. * EKi/AsvoufAzv ; shall ive continue?) Hitherto he treated of the past and the present : now he proceeds to treat of the future ; and the forms of expression are suited to those, which imme- diately precede, whilst he speaks respecting the 6 abounding’ of grace. In this passage the continuing in sin is set before us ; in the 15th verse, the going back to sin, wThich had been overcome. The man, who has obtained grace, may turn himself hither or thither. Paul in this discussion turns his back on sin.
2. ’ AwsOavofisv, we are dead) in baptism and justification.
3. j,h) Or ? [‘ an,’ Latin. The second part of] a disjunctive interrogation. — d yvos/rs, know ye not?) The doctrine concerning baptism was known to all. The same form of expression occurs again ch. vii. 1. to which the phrase, know ye not? corresponds, ver. 16, xi. 2 [Wot ye not?] and 1 Cor. throughout. Ignorance is a great obstruction ; knowlege is not sufficient.1 — o<ro/, wlioso-
1 The point in this sentence is putting officii in antithesis to sufficit, but
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