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14. ἐβασίλευσεν, the ‘constative aorist’; Moulton, p. 109.
ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ μἐχρι Μωυσέως, in the interval between Adam, who sinned against positive law, and Moses who delivered positive law. In the case of Adam and of those who lived under the Mosaic law there could be no doubt that πάντες ἥμαρτον.
ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμ. It is noticeable that as sinners men are here distinguished from Adam: their sin was of a different kind; but still it was sin, action against light, though the light came in a different way, that is, through the inner experience of the knowledge of GOD; Rom 1:18 f.
ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμ. τ. π. Ἀ. The dominant fact in the sin of Adam was that he acted in spite of a positive command: other men acted in spite of the inner light.
ὅς ἐστιν τύπος τοῦ μέλλοντος. τοῦ μέλλοντος = ‘of Him who was to come.’ Adam is typical of Christ in his natural relation to men. The words introduce the parallel now to be stated: tr. ‘and he is a type,’ etc.; and so there is a parallel in the relations, but a parallel with qualifications. So ἀλλά, not γάρ, follows.