Romanos 5:14 NVT

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 5:13-14

For until Law ( i.e. all through the time previous to the revelation of law) sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression . Though νόμος , where it first occurs in Romans 5:13 , refers definitely, as appears from the context, to the Law of Moses, yet it is without the article, as denoting the principle of law, of which the Mosaic code... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 5:12-21

Romans 5:12-21 has been usually regarded as the most difficult part of the New Testament. It is not the design of these notes to enter into a minute criticism of contested points like this. They who wish to see a full discussion of the passage, may find it in the professedly critical commentaries; and especially in the commentaries of Tholuck and of Professor Stuart on the Romans. The meaning of the passage in its general bearing is not difficult; and probably the whole passage would have been... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 5:14

Nevertheless - Notwithstanding that sin is not imputed where there is no law, yet death reigned.Death reigned - People died; they were under the dominion of death in its various melancholy influences. The expression “death reigned” is one that is very striking. It is a representation of death as a monarch; having dominion over all that period, and overall those generations. Under his dark and withering reign people sank down to the grave. We have a similar expression when we represent death as... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 5:14

Romans 5:14. Nevertheless Though the law was not yet given by Moses, yet sin was in the world, and was imputed, as appears by this, that death, which is the punishment of sin, was in the world at that time, and reigned Brought all under its power, from Adam to Moses As Romans 5:21, and Romans 6:12, even over them, &c. Not only over them that had sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, but also over infants that had not committed actual sin, as Adam had done, and over... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 5:12-21

Adam and Christ (5:12-21)The Bible views the human race as existing originally in Adam. Therefore, when Adam sinned, humankind in general was involved in his sin. This doctrine is known as original sin; that is, humankind sinned originally in Adam (12).It is true that sin is disobedience to a law, whether that law is in the form of the commandment God gave to Adam or in the form of the law-code he gave to Moses. Yet sin is present even where there is no law. This is clearly seen in the biblical... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 5:14

to = until. Greek. mechri. Moses . Occurs twenty-two times in the Epistles. Compare Matthew 8:4 . similitude = likeness. See Romans 1:23 . transgression . Greek. parabasis. See Romans 2:23 . the = a. figure. Greek. tupos . See John 20:25 . Him . . . come = The Coming One. A well-known Hebraism for the Messiah. See Matthew 11:3 . Adam was a type ( App-6 ) as the federal head of a new-created race. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 5:14

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.Both Adam and Moses are types of Christ, but here the focus is upon Adam, a figure also developed by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:45-49. Adam was the great progenitor of the human race; Christ is the spiritual head and father of all that are saved. Adam brought shame and death to all mankind; Christ has made possible the salvation... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 5:14

Romans 5:14. Who is the figure of him that was to come— Adam is said to be the figure of him who was to come, that is, of Christ the Messiah; for this is one of the marks or names by which the Jews signified the expected Messiah. See Luke 24:21. Joh 6:14-15; John 11:27. Hebrews 10:37. In the Greek it is τυπος, the type of him that was to come. A type signifies such a mark or impression as is made by a stamp or a seal. It is used, Joh 20:25 to signify the mark which the nails made in our... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 5:14

14. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression—But who are they?—a much contested question. Infants (say some), who being guiltless of actual sin, may be said not to have sinned in the way that Adam did [AUGUSTINE, BEZA, HODGE]. But why should infants be specially connected with the period "from Adam to Moses," since they die alike in every period? And if the apostle meant to express here the death of infants,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 5:12-21

E. The restorative effects of justification 5:12-21Justification by faith not only carries with it many benefits (Romans 5:1-11), but it also overcomes the effects of the Fall. Paul’s final argument in support of justification by faith involves a development of his previous emphasis on the solidarity that the saved experience with their Savior (Romans 5:1-2; Romans 5:9-10). In this section (Romans 5:12-21) he expanded that idea by showing that just as Adam’s sin has affected all people, so... read more