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(Rom. 5:1-5) “Having therefore been justified by faith, through the faith of baptism, we have peace... that we may come to God through our Lord Jesus Christ, for through Him we have had access to... the grace of this gospel, in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of His glory,” that is, in the power of His miracles. “But also in the afflictions we endured for His sake, we glory, knowing that... tribulation worketh perseverance” in us, and we endure trials because we have hope that will never trouble us. And this is “because the love of God is poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,” that is, through the Holy Spirit, whom we receive. (Rom.5:6-7) “For while... we were yet without virtue, in the last time, for the wicked - who were not able to fulfill the law - Christ... died,... for it is scarcely... for the righteous ... who die.” What gratitude and from whom can be given to one who would die for the righteous? For the righteous and martyrs, perhaps, who would decide to die - in the hope of receiving a reward from Christ at the end of time. (Rom. 5:8-9) Through this, most of all, “He shows his love... in us,” through death, that is, which he endured for the sake of our sins. After all, if for the sake of our wickedness He died, then much more will He justify us with His blood and save us from the wrath that will come at the end of the world. (Rom. 5:10) “For if, while we were enemies because of our works, God was reconciled to us through the death... of His Son,” how much more, at the very reconciliation, will He save us through “the life... of His”? (Rom.5:11) Likewise, “let our praise be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” Who died for us and reconciled us to Him who sent Him. (Rom.5:12) But in addition, he made all people one body, and, he says, in one person Adam the sinner, and began to prove that He is Adam in comparison with Adam. Just as the first one (Adam) sowed sinful uncleanness into pure bodies, and the leaven of evil was put into our entire mass (nature), so our Lord sowed righteousness into the body of sin, and His leaven mixed our entire mass (nature): “just as through Adam sin entered... and through sin... death,” so this same death spread to everyone, for everyone, both “ancestors” and The “descendants” have sinned. (Rom.5:13) However, “before the law” of Moses, thanks to which the commandments were multiplied, “sin” in some way “was not imputed”; He said this, perhaps, for the sake of Adam’s law, which then writes what before “was not a law.” (Rom.5:14) “But death reigned... from Adam to Moses,” and so on. It is not clear, however, how long “death reigned”? Until the time when the law was proclaimed (Exodus 20 et seq.), or when he received glory to his face (Exodus 34:29), or until it was said to him: “I am the God of Abraham,... Isaac,... Jacob” (Exodus 3:6), or until Hosea was called Jesus (Numbers 13:17), or until the last of the prophets, that is, John. “Death reigns,” he says, “even over those who did not sin like Adam’s crime” (Rom. 5:14), that is, even over those who did not transgress the commandment at all by eating from the tree of knowledge; for “he is the image of the future” time. Thus he teaches that just as, by Adam’s transgression of the commandment, death reigned over all, so the resurrection life, he says, reigned over all through our Lord. (Rom.5:15-17) “But... not as the crime was, so also... the gift of grace.” This means: the benefit of grace through our Lord was not commensurate with the harm of Adam’s fall. If for the sake of the crime of one created man the kingdom of death could appear, then, of course, even more so those in whom the grace of baptism and righteousness according to the law of the heart abounded, will receive the life prepared for them instead of a corruptible life, and “will reign again through Him alone,” Who is not the same (first) Adam, but “Our Lord... Jesus” (Rom. 5:11) - the creator of Adam. (Rom. 5:18) Judgment was brought upon us through one “to condemnation,” that is, through one we were condemned. Grace and the gift of baptism, poured out because of many sins, lead us “to justification” and justify us through the cleansing given to us by tuna. (Rom.5:19) "For just as through the disobedience of one man and for his sake many became sinners, so through the obedience of the One - who was an example of goodness for them - many will become righteous." (Rom.5:20) “The law came in”: - to show that it was there as an interval, since, having entered between two objects, it stood, “so that the transgression would increase.” He said this about the addition of numerous laws: “for where sin increased, there grace abounded,” that is, among the pagans, whose sin increased, the grace of the Creator increased with them. (Rom. 5:21) “So that just as sin reigned in death,” that is, led us into sin and killed, “so grace might reign through righteousness,” which quickens and justifies us. You might be interested in: