For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
17. For “The causative, γὰρ, indicates a connection with the preceding, that the gospel is the power of God: the reason is, because by the gospel is revealed the righteousness of God, that is, made known by it is a way of righteousness and of obtaining life before God, which neither the law, nor philosophy, nor any other doctrine, was able to show.” — Pareus the righteousness of God, etc.
The gospel appears mean and despised to carnal eyes, Christ Himself hanged on a tree, the doctrine plain and unadorned, its professors everywhere run down. Yet I reckon him a true Christian who is neither ashamed of the gospel nor a shame to it. God's power works through it unto salvation for all who believe, making it the great charter by which salvation is conveyed to us.
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Commenting on Romans 1:16-18
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed,.... By "the righteousness of God", is not meant the essential righteousness of God, the rectitude of his nature, his righteousness in fulfilling his promises, and his punitive justice, which though revealed in the Gospel, yet not peculiar to it; nor the righteousness by which Christ himself is righteous, either as God, or as Mediator; but that righteousness...