Romans 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For, &c. Here he shows the difference in respect of the consequence of those acts, or the different nature of the effects, that death came from one, life from the other; as if he had said, Moreover, there is another important article, in which the grace of the gospel exceeds the seeming severity which attended the imputation of guilt from our first father, Adam, namely, that, if by one man's offence death reigned by one Over all his posterity, as we observed above; they who receive By faith, John 1:12; abundance of grace An abundant measure of God's love, of the influences of his Spirit, and the gift of righteousness, exhibited in the gospel; namely, those benefits which Christ, by his obedience unto death, has purchased for us; shall much more reign in life, by one The great restorer and recoverer of his seed; Jesus Christ That is, believers shall by him be brought to a much nobler and more excellent life than that from which Adam fell, and which they lost in him.