For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Ver. 17. The just shall live by faith] Habakkuk 2:4, that is, they shall enjoy themselves by their faith, in greatest disasters or dangers, when others are at their wits' ends. That is the prophet's sense; and the apostle not unfitly applieth it to prove justification by faith alone, for if a man live by faith he is just by faith.