Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Glossa Ordinaria for Romans 16:20

  

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)