Romanos 6
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 6:2
Here Paul makes the point that past sins have been forgiven and that in this pardon grace so superabounded that earlier sins were remitted as well. Thus whoever tries to increase sin in order to feel an increase of grace does not understand that he is behaving in such a way that grace can do nothing in him. For the work of grace is that we should die to sin. — AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 31
Romanos 6:2
Nothing shorter or better could be said. For what more useful gift does the grace of God confer on us than to make us die to sin? — LETTER 215
Romanos 6:3
To be baptized into the death of Christ is nothing else but to die to sin, just as he died in the flesh. — AGAINST JULIAN 1.7.33
Romanos 6:6
This refers to Deuteronomy [21:23]: "Cursed be every man hanged from a tree." For as the crucifixion of the old man is symbolized in the cross of the Lord, so the rebirth of the new man is signified in the resurrection. It is clear that according to Paul we are in the place of the old man who is accursed. No one doubts that it was because of him that the Lord was called "sin," because "he bore our sins" and "he was made sin for us," and "by sin he condemned sin." — AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 32-34.
Romanos 6:12
We must engage in a constant, daily struggle not to obey those desires which are forbidden or improper. For from this sort of fault it comes about that the eye is turned to where it ought not to look, and if this fault grows strong and prevails, even bodily adultery is carried out, which is committed in the heart as much more quickly as thought is quicker than action and has nothing to hinder or delay it. — ON NATURE AND GRACE 38.45
Romanos 6:12
The reign of sin is overthrown and destroyed, partly by such an amendment on the part of men that the flesh is made subject to the spirit and partly by the condemnation of those who are persevering in sin, in order that they might be so justly restrained that they cannot be troublesome to the righteous, who reign with Christ. — COMMENTARY ON THE LORD'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT 1.22.77
Romanos 6:14
This refers to the third state of man, when in his mind he serves the law of God even though his flesh still serves the law of sin. For he does not obey the desire to sin, even though lusts will continue to court him and urge him to surrender until the body is raised to new life and death is swallowed up in victory. Because we do not give in to evil desires we are under grace, and sin does not reign in our mortal bodies. But the man who is controlled by sin even if he wants to resist it is still under the law and not yet under grace. — AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 35
Romanos 6:14
It is not that the law is evil but that it makes those under it guilty by giving commands without providing help to fulfill them. In fact, grace helps one to become a doer of the law, for without such grace one living under the law will be no more than a hearer of the law. — GRACE AND FREE WILL 12.24
Romanos 6:14
Grace causes sin not to have power over you. Therefore do not trust in yourself, lest sin thereby have much more power over you. — On Continence 5.12