To Florus · §2.135

To Florus 2.135

What the apostle added—‘As through one man’s offense it came upon all to condemnation, so through one man’s righteousness it came upon all human beings to justification’ (Romans 5:18)—gives us as much support as it brings crashing destruction on your doctrine. By placing ‘all’ on opposite sides, in statements that cannot be combined, he sends us back to scriptural usage, so that we understand that ‘all’ is commonly said for ‘many.’ For on the surface of the words there is a great incongruity. Who are the ‘all’ who come to justification if all have gone to condemnation? Or who are the ‘all’ who go to punishment if all are swept into glory? Making one side universal excludes the other.

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