The apostle then brings to light two sentences (Romans 5:19), which are co-extensive, but not co-etaneous in their bearing upon mankind. The one is a sentence of condemnation, which consigns 'the many,' both believing Jews and Gentiles, to the dust of the ground; the other is a sentence which affects the same 'many,' and brings them out of the ground again to return thither no more. Hence, of the saints it is said, 'the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit (gives) life because of righteousness' (Romans 8:10-11); for 'since by a man came death, by a man also came a resurrection of dead persons. For as in the Adam they all die, so also in the Christ shall they all be made alive. But every one in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming' (1st Corinthians 15:21-23). It is obvious that the apostle is not writing of all the individuals of the human race; but only of that portion of them that become the subject of 'a pardon of life.' It is true, that all men do die; but it is not true that they are all the subject of pardon. Those who are pardoned are 'the many,' who are sentenced to live for ever.
(Dr. John Thomas , Elpis Israel, 1904 ed., page 147)