Robert Rollock’s Commentary On Romans (2)

And so, you have in that one verse 18 of chapter 1 these three things: First, man is not justified by works; second, man is condemned by works, which is the reason of the former; third, all the works of all men are wicked and unrighteous, which again is the reason of the nearest former statement. For the sense of that verse is, as if to say, indeed, in regard to justification by works, it is so far absent from the case that man is justified by them, so that on the contrary he is condemned by them, for they are all wicked and unrighteous

Robert Rollock | Commentary on Ephesians, trans. Casey Carmichael, Classic Reformed Theology Series vol. 5 (Reformation Heritage Books, 2021), 8.


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    Casey Carmichael holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Geneva. He is the author of A Continental View: Johannes Cocceius’s Federal Theology of the Sabbath (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019). He is also the coeditor of the Classic Reformed Theology series, published by Reformation Heritage Books. He has translated various works from the Reformed tradition, including J. H. Heidegger’s Concise Marrow of Christian Theology and John Calvin’s Necessity of Reforming the Church.

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