Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 3:8

8. And not rather as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm, that we say, Let us do evil that good may come, whose damnation is Just .

The placing of these Words makes them [illegible: 1 letter]ound harshly, and consequently causeth Obscurity: Criticks make a great stir about them, some including them in a Parenthesis; Others affirming, there is a Transposition in them. They seem to be a Refutation to the former Cavil, and must be Accommodated to that Sence. It is as if the Apostle should have said, If Sinners deserve no Punishment, because God reaps Glory to himself by their Sins; then that is a good Proverb or Saying, which is in some mens Mouths, and We our selves are Slander'd with it, as if it were our Opinion and Doctrine: That We may do Evil, that Good may come of it. But this Saying is generally Exploded; none dare to vouch it, and therefore the former Cavil is of no Force.

i. e. Their Damnation is just, who Teach such Doctrine, and Practice accordingly; who do evil that good may come of it. The Apostle doth not vouchsafe to refute this absurd Saying; but simply Condemns it, and those that put it in Practice: Or else his meaning in these Words is this, That they Iustly deserve Damnation, who Calumniate the Apostles and Publishers of the Gospel, and raise false Reports and Slanders of them: Their Damnation is Iust, who affirm We say or hold, That Evil may be done, that Good may come thereof.