mentioned, (v. 14). But the alteration of the phrase is not without
delivered up to Satan, was restored again: but we never hear of any being restored who were given up to themselves. Better be given up to the devil than to sin.
Of Our Fall in Adam
"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Romans 5:19
This text consists of two propositions. The first is, By one man's disobedience many were made sinners. Where consider,
1. Who that one man was. It was Adam. This is plain from Romans 5:14 and to no other can it agree.
2. What that disobedience of his was. It was his first sin, the eating of the forbidden fruit. This was that sin that first broke into the world, and opened the door to death, (v. 12). This was the transgression of Adam, that offence (v. 14) or fall, the offence of one (v. 15), or, as the Greek will bear, the one offence "tou henos paraptomati," here called disobedience, for thereby he hearkened to the devil, not to God.
3. Whom it concerned; many. This is in effect the same with the all mentioned, (v. 14). But the alteration of the phrase is not without reason: for there is an exception here of the man Christ, of whom he speaks in the next clause. It reached many men, but not all simply; he, and he only, was excepted.