Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 4:7
This testimony is taken out of Psalms 32:1, and it is well enough accommodated to the occasion, for those two, to remit sin, and to impute righteousness, are inseparable. The one is put here figuratively for the other. They mistake, who take occasion from hence to make justification to consist only in remission of sin: the text will not bear it. The apostle’s design is, not hereby to declare the full nature of justification, which he had done before; but only to prove the freedom of it from any... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 4:6
To the example of Abraham taken from Moses, he adjoins the testimony of David, that so he might more fully prove what he had asserted, Romans 3:21; both the one and the other were of great authority amongst the Jews. Here it may be objected, that David no where says, that he is blessed unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. Answer. Though the words be no where extant in David, yet the sense is, as appears in what follows. {see Romans 4:7} read more