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Rom 5:20. Νόμος, law) the omission of the article tends to increase the sublimity [elevation of tone].-παρεισῆλθε) came in stealthily by Moses, Rom 5:14. The Antithetic word is, entered, Rom 5:12; Sin therefore is more ancient than the law.-πλεονάσῃ, might abound) ch. Rom 7:7, etc. Sin is not reckoned in the absence of the law; but when the law came in stealthily, sin appeared as abounding; but, before the law, the fall of Adam should be held as the cause of death.-τὸ παράπτωμα, the offence) supply καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία and sin. All the sins of mankind, compared with the sin of Adam, are as it were offshoots; it is the root. Ἁμαρτία, sin, in the singular number, is considered as a plague most widely spread; and it also comprehends all actual παραπτώματα, offences, Rom 5:16.-ἡ ἁμαρτία [the] sin) or in other words, the offence and sin; for there is a difference between them;[54] see notes on Rom 5:14; the sin, in the singular number, Joh 1:29.-ὑπερεπερίσσευσε, superabounded [did much more abound] A third party conquering the conqueror of the conquered is superior to both: sin conquered man: grace conquers sin; therefore the power of grace is greatest.
[54] The latter being the result of the former.-ED.