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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8 They therefore which are in the flesh. It is not without cause that I have expounded the particle aduersative de by the causal: For verily the Apostle gathereth out of the premisses, that they, who deliver over themselves to be lead by the lusts of the flesh,1 are all of them abominable to God. And hitherto he hath confirmed that sentence: namely, that all they have nothing to do with Christ, which walk not after the spirit, because they are void of an heavenly life.
8 They therefore whiche are in the fleshe. It is not without cause that I haue expounded the particle aduersatiue de by the causall: For verily the Apostle gathereth out of the premisses, that they, who deliuer ouer themselues to be lead by the lustes of the fleshe,1 are all of them abhominable to God. And hitherto hee hath confirmed that sentence: namely, that all they haue nothing to doe with Christ, which walke not after the spirite, because they are voide of an heauenly life.
- 1Who have nothing to do with Christ.Who haue nothing to do with Christe.
9 Now ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit: if so be the spirit of GOD dwell in you: for if any have not the spirit of Christ▪ the same is not his.
9 Nowe yee are not in the fleshe, but in the spirite: if so bee the spirite of GOD dwell in you: for if any haue not the spirite of Christe▪ the same is not his.