Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
The apostle had asserted, That sin was in the world before the written law of Moses; here he proves it thus: "Death, the wages of sin, did reign in the world, and had power over all mankind from Adam to Moses; therefore sin was in the world from Adam to Moses." By them that have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, infants are...
All our privileges flow from Christ's precious blood; His death for us is the spring-head of justification. He died for those without strength, entirely unable to help themselves, and worse still, for the ungodly, not merely helpless but guilty, deserving to perish, yet loved with a love that surpasses all human measure.
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Commenting on Romans 5:6-21
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. (12) But that this law was not the universal law, and that death did not proceed from any actual sin of everyone particularly, it appears by this, that the very infants which neither could ever...