Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsRomans 6
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Read Romans 6 in the BibleRomans 6:6
Old man, body of sin.
◦ Our corrupt state subject to sin and concupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called the Old man: as our person reformed in & by Christ, is named the New man. And the lump and mass of sins which then ruled, is called the corpse or body of sin.
- ◦ The old man, & the new.
Romans 6:10
To sin he died.
[1] Christ died to sin, when by his death he destroyed sin: We die to sin, in that we be discharged of the power thereof, which before was as it were the life of our persons, and commanded all the parts and faculties of our soul and body: [2] as contrarywise we live to God, when his grace ruleth and worketh in us. as the soul doth rule our mortal bodies.
- 1 Dying to sin.
- 2 Living to God.
Romans 6:12
Sin reign.
◦ Concupiscence is here named sin, because it is the effect, occasion, and matter of sin, and is as it were a disease or infirmity in us, inclining us to ill, remaining also after Baptism according to the substance or matter thereof: but it is not properly a sin, nor forbidden by commandment, till it reign in us, and we obey and follow the desires thereof. August. li. de. nupt. & concupisc. c. 23. Cont. 2 epist. Pelag. li. 1. c. 13. Conc. Trident. Sess. 5. decret. de pec. orig.
- ◦ How concupiscence is called sin.
Romans 6:17
Form of doctrine.
◦ At the first conversion of every nation to the Catholic faith, there is a form & rule of belief set down, unto which when the people is once put by their Apostles, they must never by any persuasion of men alter the same, nor take of man or Angel, any new doctrine or Analogy of faith, as the Protestants call it.
- ◦ The doctrine of our first Apostles.
Romans 6:23
The grace of God, life everlasting.
[1] The sequel of speech required, that as he said, death or damnation is the stipend of sin, so life everlasting is the stipend of justice. And so it is, and in the same sense he spake in the last chapter: [2] that as sin reigneth to death, so grace reigneth by justice to life everlasting. But here he changed the sentence somewhat, calling life everlasting grace, rather than reward: because the merits by which we attain unto life, be all of God's gift and grace. August. Ep. 105. ad Sixtum.
- 1 Life everlasting a stipend, and yet grace.
- 2 v. 20.
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Romans 6:3
We that are baptized.
◦ That which before he challenged from the Law of Moyses, to faith, is now attributed to Baptism, which is the first Sacrament of our faith and the entrance to Christian religion. Whereby it is plain that he meaneth not only faith to justify, but the Sacraments also, and all Christian religion, which he calleth the Law of spirit, grace, and faith.