16:20 And may the
God of peace soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you.
And may the God
of peace. You should be
wise, but it is God who will crash Satan, i.e., the false
preachers or anyone, human or devil, that is doing you harm. under your
feet. So that you may disdain his head, i.e., the first motions of
temptation, as was said of Eve in the figure of the church. grace.
He desires them to have now the grace which he has promised at his arrival.
God of peace—God the giver of peace
soon—namely at my coming
under your feet—so that you cannot be harmed; so that the
grace, etc. (The Glossa Ordinaria on Romans [trans. Michael Scott
Woodard; TEAMS Commentary Series; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan
University, 2011], 229)
