From a narrow source sin advanced to destruction : from a
wide source grace flowed forth unto life. Therefore the
Apostle adds : hut the free gift is of mcmy offefnces unto
justification. When the offenders were many, grace came ;
that it might take in and justify many. For if by the ojffence ver. 17.
of the one — that is, by oneness of offence, and from one
offence — death reigned through the one, even Adam ; — if the
reign of death increased from the one offence; — much more
shall they which receive abundance of grace — that is, the
manifold store of grace— and of the gift, amd of righteousness,
which every one has by the gift of God, reign in life through
the one, Jesus Christ; through whom we have manifold and
great grace.
Therefore as through the offence of the ons — Adam, (we ver. is.
say that the issue was) u7ito all men to condemnation ; even
so through the righteousness of the one, the issue was v/nto all



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men to justification of life. The jnatdfication of all men is

ver, 19. through the justifying righteousness of Jesus Christ. For
as through the disobedience of the one — Adam — the many
were mude sinners : — by the word many he means dli — so
through the obedience of the one shall the many he made
righteous. The many, that is, all who will : because grace
is, both in itself, and in its effects, greater and more mani-
fold than sin.
