John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 1:17
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Ver. 17. The just shall live by faith ] Habakkuk 2:4 , that is, they shall enjoy themselves by their faith, in greatest disasters or dangers, when others are at their wits’ ends. That is the prophet’s sense; and the apostle not unfitly applieth it to prove justification by faith alone, for if a man live by faith he is just by faith. read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Ver. 16. For I am not ashamed ] As men are apt to be; whence that fatherly charge,2 Timothy 1:8; 2 Timothy 1:8 . Do ye think (said John Frith, martyr, to the archbishop’s men that would have let him go) that I am afraid to declare mine opinion unto the bishops of England in a manifest truth? If you should both leave me here, and go... read more