9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.



Ver. 9. Cometh this blessedness] This is the third time that the apostle avoucheth the universality of the subject of justification. For this he had done once before, Rom_3:23, and again, Rom_3:29-31. The Scripture doth not use, saith one, to kill flies with beetles, to cleave straws with wedges of iron, to spend many words where there is no need.