Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Romans 5:21
Sin, etc.] RV 'sin reigned in death,' i.e. sin had power which was death-bringing: cp. Isaiah 32:1. Unto.. life] i.e. resulting in.. life.
Sin, etc.] RV 'sin reigned in death,' i.e. sin had power which was death-bringing: cp. Isaiah 32:1. Unto.. life] i.e. resulting in.. life.
Verse 21. _THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH_] As extensively, as deeply, as universally, as _sin_, whether implying the _act of transgression_ or the _impure principle_ from which the act proceeds...
Romans 5:12 has been usually regarded as the most difficult part of the New Testament. It is not the design of these notes to enter into a minute criticism of contested points like this. They who wish...
THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED - Note, Romans 5:14. UNTO DEATH - Producing or causing death. EVEN SO - In like manner, also. The provisions of redemption are in themselves ample to meet all the ruins of t...
4. IN CHRIST. The Sanctification of the Believer; his Deliverance from Sin and the Law; Children and Heirs. Chapter 5:12-8. CHAPTER 5:12-21 _ 1. Sin and Death Through the First Adam. (Romans 5:12...
The therefore of Romans 5:12 covers Romans 1:16 to Romans 5:11: the working of sin and grace are traced up to their fountain-heads in ADAM AND CHRIST (_cf._...
AT HOME WITH GOD (Romans 5:1-5)...
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and, through sin, death entered into the world, and so death spread to all men, in that they had sinned; for up to the coming of the law...
HATH. Omit. EVEN SO, &C. = so might grace also. ETERNAL. App-151....
_that as sin_, &c. More lit. THAT AS THE SIN REIGNED IN DEATH, SO ALSO MAY THE GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS, &c. "_The sin reigned in death:_" i.e., death was the expression of its power. Cp. Rom...
12–21. This state depends upon a living relation of mankind to Christ, analogous to the natural relation to Adam, and as universal as that is. So it comes to pass that there is a parallel between the...
ἽΝΑ ὭΣΠΕΡ Κ.Τ.Λ. Here the reign of death is shown to be as a matter of fact the reign of sin in the atmosphere of death; a summary again of Romans 1:18 f. ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΑΝΆΤΩΙ. The |[139] εἰς ζωὴν shows t...
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΩ (G936), _см._ Romans 5:17. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) используется для выражения цели, ΑΊΏΝΙΟΣ (G166) вечный. Жизнь вечная не только ждет в будущем, но и органически...
DISCOURSE: 1844 THE ABUNDANT GRACE OF GOD Romans 5:20. _Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto etern...
_TEXT_ Romans 5:20-21. And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: Romans 5:21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might...
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED - `That as sin reigned' ebasileusen (G936)]...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 Death entered through sin at first, but now sin is transmitted through death. All sin because they are mortal. Christ brings life, which disposes of both death and sin....
5:21 righteousness (b-20) i.e. on that principle of righteousness, _ dikaiosune_ . i.e. the quality itself, as ch. 3.21....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 THE *BLESSINGS THAT WE RECEIVE BECAUSE OF GOD’S *GRACE 5:1-11 V1 We are *righteous because of our *faith. So we are...
The Apostle had already (Romans 5:13) alluded to the intervention of the Law. Now he returns to the topic, and in order to complete his historical view of the origin of sin through Adam, and its atone...
(12-21) Contrast between the reign of death introduced by the sin of Adam, and the reign of life introduced by the atonement of Christ. The sequence is, first sin, then death. Now, the death which pas...
UNTO DEATH. — Rather, _in death;_ death being, as it were, the domain in which its sovereignty was exercised. In this last section we seem still to trace the influence of the school of Gamaliel. It a...
CHAPTER 13 CHRIST AND ADAM Romans 5:12 WE approach a paragraph of the Epistle pregnant with mystery. It leads us back to Primal Man, to the Adam of the first brief pages of the Scripture record, to...
The treatment of the righteousness of God, as a Divine gift to sinners in Jesus Christ, is now complete, and the Apostle might have passed on to his treatment of the new life (chaps. 6 8). But he intr...
DEATH THROUGH ADAM, LIFE THROUGH CHRIST Romans 5:12 This is the profoundest and most fundamental section of the whole Epistle. It contains an insight into the deep things of God, 1 Corinthians 2:10....
The apostle now dealt with the values of justification. The value to the individual is a threefold blessing. This nature as to cause the heart to rejoice. The apostle now showed the difference between...
Now the law entered in. Not that the law was designed for that end; but the word that, as in many other places, so here expresseth only the consequence that followed, when sinners occasionally became...
THIRD SECTION. Twelfth Passage (5:12-21). The Universality of Salvation in Christ proved by the Universality of Death in Adam. Justification by faith had just been expounded; the historical foundati...
“ _Now the law was added, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded more: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto ete...
This verse declares the _universal_ end of this divine dispensation which seemed at first to concern only Israel. Paul thus returns to the general idea of the entire passage. The _that_, as well as pe...
REFLECTIONS Precious Lord Jesus! I would say, as I meditate on this sweet Chapter; what hath my God wrought for his Church and people? Here I behold the blessedness of a justified state! Peace with Go...
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (13) (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
21._That as sin has reigned_, _etc. _As sin is said to be the sting of death, and as death has no power over men, except on account of sin; so sin executes its power by death: it is hence said to exer...
Thus, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Remark here also the difference of Abraham's faith and ours. He believed God could perform what He promised. We are called to believe He has per...
THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH,.... This is another end of the law's entrance, or rather an illustration of the grace of God, by comparing the reigns of sin and grace together: sin has such a pow...
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Ver. 21. _That as sin hath reigned_] That is, the wrath of God by sin....
THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS; the righteousness which God gives through faith in Christ, who died for our sins according to the Scriptures, rose for our justification, and ever lives to make intercession for...
THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH, EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. Paul now takes up the thread of the argument which he introduced in v....
A summary of the argument:...
BLESSINGS ATTENDING JUSTIFICATION Now as to the _means_ and _assurance_ of present justification, every question has been answered, every doubt fully banished by simple, straightforward truth. Thus ev...
÷ ROMANS 5:12-21 The Two Adams Contrasted Romans 5:12-21 First Adam Second Adam Sin entered - 12 Salvation - 15 Death to all men - 12 Free gift - 15 Many died - 15 Grace for many - 15 Condemnation -...
THAT, AS SIN REIGNED IN DEATH, EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. "THAT". "In order that" (TCNT). " AS SIN REIGNED IN DEATH": Sin is the r...
20,21 By Christ and his righteousness, we have more and greater privileges than we lost by the offence of Adam. The moral law showed that many thoughts, tempers, words, and actions, were sinful, thus...
Before he ascribed dominion and reign to death, now to sin; the reason is evident, because death indeed reigneth by sin. Before also he had made the comparison between Adam and Christ, here it is betw...
that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. [All this reasoning almost wholly ignores the Mosaic law: where then did...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto (eternal) life by Jesus Christ,"[631] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh By a fig...
Romans 5:21 that G2443 as G5618 sin G266 reigned G936 (G5656) in G1722 death G2288 even G2532 so...
WE ARE ASSURED OF REIGNING IN LIFE AND ENJOYING FUTURE GLORY AND THE BASIS OF THIS IS WHAT CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED FOR US (5:1-21). Having been reckoned as righteous through faith we have peace with G...
SALVATION TO THE UTTERMOST (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ's activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the...
‘That, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.' For God came to a world where sin reigned in death, where all men were...
THE EFFECT OF THE LAW AND THE CONSEQUENCE OF CHRIST'S OBEDIENCE (5:20-21). In case anyone may question how the giving of the Law came into the equation Paul now explains. All that the Law accomplished...
PAUL NOW DESCRIBES MAN'S ONENESS WITH ADAM IN JUDGMENT AND COMPARES IT WITH THE BELIEVER'S ONENESS WITH CHRIST IN DELIVERANCE (5:12-21). This passage can be seen as summarising all that has gone befor...
DIFFERENT THEORIES OF ORIGINAL SIN AND IMPUTATION. _Excursus on Romans 5:12._ (Comp. Lange, _Romans,_ pp. 191-195; where will be found the fuller statements of Dr. Schaff, here presented in an abrid...
3. THE GOSPEL THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION. In this _third division_ of the doctrinal part of the Epistle, the Apostle presents the gospel as ‘the power of God unto salvation,' setting forth how G...
THAT--EVEN SO GRACE MIGHT REIGN (ινα--ουτος κα η χαρις βασιλευση). Final ινα here, the purpose of God and the goal for us through Christ. Lightfoot notes the force of the aorist indicative (εβασιλε...
SIN "Sin" in Romans 6, 7 is the nature in distinction from "sins," which are manifestations of that nature. Compare (1 John 1:8) with (1 John 1:10), where this distinction also appears. GRACE Grac...
Romans 5:17 The Chapter of the Five Kings. Where do we find these five kings? There is King Sin, for Sin reigned. There is King Death, for I read "Death reigned." There is King Grace, for Grace reig...
Romans 5:20 Abounding Sin; Over-abounding Grace. I. Grace. Here are the two antagonists grace and sin. Both would be kings; one only has the power to reign. Grace is not just synonymous with love, th...
Romans 5:10. _For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God, by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall by saved by his life._ Grand argument for the safety of all belie...
Romans 5:6. _For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly._ This is one of the most surprising sentences on record. If it had not been inspired, there are many who w...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:_ These are matters of fact; not of fanatical delusion, but of logical conclusion, for Paul begin...
CONTENTS: The results of justification. Life and righteousness through Jesus Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Adam, Moses. CONCLUSION: Justification through faith in Jesus Christ takes a...
Romans 5:1. _Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God._ Faith in the atonement removes the guilt of sin, and makes us heirs of all the promised righteousness of God; the prodigals ar...
JUST AS SIN RULED. Death oppresses ALL! LEADING US TO ETERNAL LIFE. This is like a hymn of praise to God! Sin rules by death, God's grace rules by righteousness, and leads us to eternal life!!! (1) Th...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 5:12 Adam brought sin and death into the world, but those who have believed in Christ have hope. Christ has reversed the consequences of Adam’s sin and has given his own life and...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 5:1 Hope as a Result of Righteousness by Faith. Believers in Christ, who are righteous in God’s sight, have a sure hope of future glory and life eternal....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 5:12.—Adam the head of a race whose transgressions lead on to condemnation. Christ the ancestor of a seed whose faith and obedience culminate in eternal life. Rabbis spoke of a...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 5:1 (6) The _results of the revelation of the righteousness of God, as affecting_ (A) the consciousness and hopes of believers; (B) the position of mankind before God. ROMANS 5:...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the fifth chapter of Romans. Since chapter 3 Paul has been talking about justification by faith. How that God has declared me innocent because of my faith in Jesus C...
1 John 2:25; 1 John 5:11; 1 Peter 5:10; 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 4:16;...
Unto death [ε ν τ ω θ α ν α τ ω]. Wrong. In death, as Rev. As the sphere or dominion of death's tyranny. Compare ver. 14, "death reigned." Some, however, explain the preposition as instrumental, by de...
THE AS AND SO OF SCRIPTURE Romans 5:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wrote a booklet on "As and So," dealing with the "As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man." We n...
MUCH MORE THE GRACE OF GOD Romans 5:1, _Romans 5:15_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have before us today portions of Romans for our study. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans carries with it one of God's supre...
That as sin had reigned — so grace also might reign — Which could not reign before the fall; before man had sinned. Through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord — Here is pointed out...