Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 3:7

7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner ?

By Truth he means the Faithfulness and Veracity of God, as by Lye, the Perfidiousness and inconstancy of Man (ut supra & alibi.)

q. d. If more Glory accrews to the Name of God, by my Wickedness; What reason is there, that I should be Punisht, and proceeded against as an Offender, who have occasioned this further Glory to God? The Apostle doth plainly Personate in this place a wicked Objector, or he speaks in the Name and Person of such a One. This way of Speaking and Writing, is very frequent among all Authors; and 'tis [illegible: 1 letter]ound sometimes with the Pen-Men of the Holy Scriptures, vid. Eccl. 3.19, 20, 21, 22▪ 1 Cor. 15.32, The Apostle tells the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 4.6. That in a Figure he Transfer'd some things to himself, and to Apollos for their sakes, that they might not be puffed up; he counted such Schemes and Figures as these to be most profitable and efficacious to the Reader.