Romanos 5
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 5:1
Faith has given you forgiveness of sins and made you spotless and righteous by the washing of regeneration. Therefore you ought to keep the peace by which you have been united with God. For when you were still enemies, the only begotten Son of God reconciled you by taking on human flesh and putting sin to death in it. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 5:10
Once more, Paul calls the Lord Christ "the Son," who is both God and man. But it is clear, I think, even to the greatest heretics in which nature his suffering took place. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 5:12
St. Paul says that when Adam sinned he became mortal because of it and passed both on to his descendants. Thus death came to all men, in that all sinned. But each person receives the sentence of death not because of the sin of his first ancestor but because of his own sin. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 5:13
Paul is not, as some think, accusing those who lived before the law but rather everyone together. When he says "before the law" he does not mean before the law began but before the law came to an end, because as long as the law was in control, sin retained its force. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 5:15
Paul calls Jesus a man in this passage in order to underline the parallel with Adam, for just as death came through one man, so the cure for death came through one man as well. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 5:19
Note that Paul says "many" and "not all," for we find some among the ancients who did not sin, e.g., Abel, Enoch, Melchizedek, the patriarchs and those who succeeded in keeping the law. On the other hand, after the coming of grace, there were many who continued to embrace an unrighteous and wicked life. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 5:20
Paul says that "the law came in" because he wants to show that God did not leave earlier generations destitute of his providence. But he also gave the law to the Jews, so that by their zeal and dedication to godliness they could act as a light to the other nations. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS