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Here, after a long parenthesis, the apostle returns to what he had begun to say in Rom_5:12; and now he makes the comparison full in both members, which there, by reason of intervening matter, was left imperfect, as I before hinted.
Judgment; guilt, which exposeth to judgment.
Came upon all men; all the posterity, or natural seed, of the first Adam.
The free gift; that which all along he calls the free gift, seems to be the benefit believers have by Christ’s obedience.
Came upon all men; not all universally, but all sorts of men indifferently, Gentiles as well as Jews; or all that are his spiritual seed. Or all men here is put for many men; see elsewhere, Luk_6:26 Act_22:15.
Many is sometimes put for all, as Dan_12:2, and again all for many; and indeed these two words, all and many, seem to be used reciprocally by this context in particular, Rom_5:15,19.