Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 5:19

19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners : so by the obedience of one, shall many be made Righteous.

i. e. Adams, see the notes on v. 12.

i. e. All as before, many is here opposed to one or a few; the meaning is, Though Adam was but one, yet he infected many others, his sin rested not in his own person.

Brought into a State of sin. This is more than when all the World were said to sin in him. The word is used to signifie great and hainous sinners. The Apostle here informes us of that which all Philosophy was ignorant of, viz. the Imputation of Adams sin, and our natural Polution flowing from it. Yea, this was more than the naked History of mans fall by Moses did discover; There indeed we see the Cause of death, how that came upon all mankind; but that Adams sin was accounted to us, that by his disobedience we are involv'd in Sin and Misery, that is not clearly revealed in the Books of Moses. We are beholding to the Gospel, and particularly to this Text and Context, for the more full discovery hereof.

i. e. Of Christ. He leaves out the word, Man, either for brevities sake, or because Christ was not a meer man as Adam was. Here the Apostle concludes the Collation he had made between Adam and Christ, whom he had all along represented as two publick Persons, or as two common Roots or Fountaines, the one of Sin and [illegible: 1 letter]eath, the other of Righteousness and Life. And indeed there are throughout the Conte[illegible: 1 letter]t (as one observes) several Textual and Grammatical Obscurities, as also redundant and defective expressions which are not unusual with this Apostle, whose matter runneth from him like a torrent, and cannot be so well bounded by words. Another saith upon the consideration of the difficulties in this context, we do not need Theseus his twine of thread, but the Holy Ghost and that Light by which this Epistle was wrote, to guide us into the understanding of it.