ACC ~ Romans 6 v1

THOSE IN WHOM GRACE ABOUNDS HAVE DIED TO SIN. ORIGEN: This is a rhetorical question which arises from what Paul said [in Romans 5:20] above. … He answers it in the next verse, saying that those in whom grace abounds have died to sin. It is clear that someone who has died to sin cannot remain a sinner. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

REJECTING THE KINGDOM OF GRACE. AMBROSIASTER: The believer who returns to his former way of life rejects the kingdom of God’s grace and returns to sin, i.e., to the pattern of his previous life. For we have received mercy for two reasons: first, that the kingdom of the devil might be removed, and second, that the rule of God might be proclaimed to the ignorant, for it was by this means that we came to desire this dignity. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

AN INDIRECT EXHORTATION. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul is once more starting to exhort his hearers, but he does so indirectly, as if it arose naturally out of his teaching, so as not to appear to be irksome and vexing. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 10.

LIVING FOR GRACE. PELAGIUS: Paul is speaking here of those whom faith found in sin, not of us believers, who have died to sin in order to live for grace. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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