Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 5:18

18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation: even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Here, after a long Parenthesis, the Apostle returnes to what he had begun to say, in v. 12. and now he makes the Comparison full in both members, which there by reason of intervening matter was left imperfect as I before hinted.

Guilt which exposeth to Judgment.

All the Posterity or natural Seed of the first Adam.

That which all along he calls the Free Gift, seems to be the benefit the Believers have by Christs Obedience.

Not all universally, but all Sorts of men indifferently, Gentiles as well as Iews: Or all that are his Spiritual Seed▪ Or All men here, is put for many men: See elsewhere. vid. Luke 6.26. Act. 22.15. Many is sometimes put for All. Dan. 12.2. and again All for Many; and indeed these two words, All and Many seem to be used reciprocally by this context in particular v. 15. and 19.

Marginal references: Or, by one offence.