The Greek adverb mallon is one of the most common words in the New Testament, appearing over 80 times. It expresses comparative preference ('rather' choose this than that), increasing degree ('all the more'), or emphasis. It appears in key theological texts: 'How much more will your Father in heaven give...' (Matthew 7:11), 'Much more then, having been justified...' (Romans 5:9), and Philippians 1:23 ('Which is better by far').
Paul's repeated use of mallon in Romans 5 creates a theology of 'much more': if death reigned through Adam's one trespass, 'how much more' will grace reign through the one man Jesus Christ (Romans 5:15–17). The logic of the gospel is always escalation upward: sin is great, but grace is mallon — more, greater, all the more. This is not cheap grace but the mathematics of infinite divine generosity. The cross is not merely a correction to the fall; it is a mallon — an overflowing surplus of redemption.