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Now show where he made grace equal to sin.Since your faith cannot admit remedies ranked above wounds, let it at least admit remedies squeezed down so that they do not exceed the comparison.Even if you found that written somewhere, Paul would still clearly reject such a view.To bring the apostle’s whole meaning to light briefly, he says: ‘Grace is from many offenses to justification’ (Romans 5:16).Even according to you infants do not have many offenses; according to the apostle they have none.
Nunc tu ede, ubi aequaverit peccato gratiam, ut, quoniam fides tua non capit remedia praelata vulneribus, saltem capiat in angustum non excedentia comparationem redacta; quod si scriptum uspiam reppereris, Paulum tamen ab hac constabit abhorrere sententia; et ut compendio totus Apostoli sensus eluceat, ait: Gratia ex multis delictis in iustificationem [n176] . Multa autem delicta nec secundum te parvuli habent, qui secundum Apostolum nullum habent.