“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:”
The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more. The law's paradoxical function: it was added to increase trespass—not to enable sin but to expose it, to make transgression unmistakable. Yet grace superabounds over the law's condemning power. This is the final word: grace overwhelms all else.
Church Fathers on Romans 5:20
“Moreover the Law entered: that the offense might abound.” Since then he had shown that the world was condemned from Adam, but from Christ was saved and freed from condemnation, he now seasonably enters upon the discussion of the Law, here again undermining the high notions of it. For it was so far from doing any good, he means, or from being any way helpful, but the disorder was only increased by its having come in. But the particle “that” again does not assign the cause,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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