Covenant Reformed News – July 2025 • Volume XX, Issue 15
This article from Covenant Reformed News provides a detailed exegetical analysis of Romans 5:15, exploring the Adam-Christ typology and the doctrine of the two federal heads. The author explains that the "much more" of grace in Christ surpasses the miseries flowing from Adam's fall, demonstrating how the blessings of redemption in the "last Adam" exceed the consequences of the "first Adam's" transgression.
Adam-Christ Typology (5) What about the “much more” of Romans 5:15: “But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many”? What is “much more” than what? In previous issues of the News, we have seen that it is not referring to the number of the saved as exceeding the number of the lost. It is not speaking about effectiveness, as if God’s...