| Romans 5:1
| Therefore, being justified by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
| The apostle proceeds in this chapter to shew how great a benefit it is to be truly justified by the coming of Christ. --- Let us have { Ver. 1. Pacem habeamus. In the common Greek copies we read echomen, habemus. But in other manuscripts echomen, as St. Chrysostom must have read by his commentary, meke[] amartanomen. etc.|} peace with God. That is, says St. Chrysostom, by laying aside all contentions. Or let us have peace with God by sinning no more. And this peace we may have under the greatest tribulations, which conduce to our greater good, to an increase in virtues, in patience, in hope, in the love of God, etc. (Witham)
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