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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans
A commentary upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, written in Latin by M. John Calvin, and newly translated into English by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessary table for the better and more ready finding out of certain principal matters contained in this workA commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison and George Bishop, 1583London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1583
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9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
9 Much more then, being nowe iustified by his blood, we shalbe saued from wrath through him.
6 For Christ. In translating, I durst not take so much upon me, as to turn it according to the time wherein we were weak, which sense notwithstanding liked me rather. For here beginneth an argument from the greater to the less, which he prosecuteth afterward at large. Albeit he hath not framed the course of his speech so distinct: but the disordered composition of the speech shall trouble the sense nothing. If Christ (quoth he) take pity upon the ungodly, if he reconciled his enemies to his father, if he did this by the virtue of his death: now much more easily will he save them being justified: being restored to favour, he will keep them in the same: chiefly seeing the efficacy of his life is now added unto his death. Some take the time of weakness for that time, wherein Christ began first to be manifested to the world: and they suppose those ⟨image 77⟩men, who were under the erudition of the law, to have been like unto children. But I refer it unto every one of us: and say it noteth the time,1 that goeth before every mans reconciliation to God. For as we are all borne the sons of wrath, so are we holden under that curse, until we be made partakers of Christ. And he calleth those infirm or weak which have nothing in them but it is corrupted. For he termeth the same straightways after ungodly. Neither is it any new thing that this word infirmity should be so taken. So he calleth the privy parts of the body,2 feeble: And the presence of the body which hath no majesty, weak. And this signification a little after doeth often occur. Therefore, when we were feeble, that is, neither worthy nor mete that God should respect us, at that time Christ died for the wicked: because faith is the beginning of piety, from the which they were all estranged, for whom he died, which also taketh place in the old Fathers, who had obtained righteousness before this death. For they had that benefit from his death that was to come.