“That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The conclusion: where sin once reigned in death, grace now reigns through righteousness, producing eternal life. The reign of grace through Christ supersedes and transcends the reign of death through Adam. The gospel's triumph is assured in this eschatological perspective.
Church Fathers on Romans 5:21
“That as sin reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.” This he says to show that the latter ranks as a king, the former, death, as a soldier, being marshalled under the latter, and armed by it. If then the latter (i.e. sin) armed death, it is plain enough that the righteousness destructive hereof, which by grace was introduced, not only disarms death, but even destroys it, and undoes entirely the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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