Romanos 11
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 11:5
Not only the Gentiles are benefited by the coming of Christ but also some who belong to the divine race, many of whom have been called to salvation. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 4.1.13
Romanos 11:5
The fact that Paul adds the words "chosen by grace" seems to me to be significant. He could have said simply that there is a remnant saved by grace, but by adding "chosen" he indicates that there is grace both with and without election. For everyone who is saved has doubtless been saved by grace, but those who have been saved by the election of grace seem to me to be more perfect than the others. For just as Israel includes all those who are descended from the nation of Israel as well as those who worship God with a pure mind and sincere heart, so we may also assume that all who come to faith in Christ come by grace. But those in whom the gift of grace is adorned with the works of virtue and purity of heart will be said to be saved not only by grace but by the election of grace. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:8
I have not been able to find the source of this quotation. If someone consults holy Scripture more carefully than I have done and finds it, let him say so. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:9
The trap is not mentioned either in the Hebrew or in the Septuagint. We have recorded these things about the order of the words and the quality of the witnesses consulted in order to show by these details that the authority of the apostle does not rely on the texts of the Hebrews nor does it always retain the words of the translators, but rather it expounds the meaning of the Scriptures in whatever words are most suitable. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:10
God will do this because it is better not to know anything at all than to know something badly. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:11
Note that Paul distinguishes between stumbling and sinning on the one hand and falling on the other. For he envisages a cure for stumbling and sinning but not for falling.… This is why he denies that Israel has fallen.… For the Israelites, although they rejected their redeemer and stoned and persecuted those who were sent to them, nevertheless still contain a remnant within them. For they have the witness of the law even if they do not believe or understand it. They also have the imitation of God even if it is not according to knowledge. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:12
Consider the wisdom of God in this. For with him not even sins and lapses are wasted, but whenever someone rejects freedom of his own accord, the dispensation of divine wisdom makes others rich by using the very failing by which they have become poor.…Now indeed, until all the Gentiles come to salvation the riches of God are concentrated in the multitude of believers, but as long as Israel remains in its unbelief it will not be possible to say that the fullness of the Lord's portion has been attained. The people of Israel are still missing from the complete picture. But when the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and Israel comes to salvation at the end of time, then it will be the people which, although it existed long ago, will come at the last and complete the fullness of the Lord's portion and inheritance. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:13
What is more worthy than to magnify the ministry which one has received by the providence of God? For the man who ministers well magnifies his ministry, while on the other hand the one who has ministered negligently and unworthily dishonors his ministry and draws unfavorable comment on it. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:14
By his attentive care and close attention to the teaching of the Gentiles and by making their behavior worthy of eternal life, Paul is inviting and provoking the Jews who see these things and who are his kinsmen according to the flesh to imitate those who are progressing in the faith of God. It is the glory of his ministry that he can use the teaching of the Gentiles to reach some of his own people as well. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:20
Who is the one from whom they have been broken off but he in whom they have not believed? — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:26
What "all Israel" means or what the fullness of the Gentiles will be only God knows along with his only begotten Son and perhaps a few of his friends, as he said: "I no longer call you servants but friends, for I have made known to you everything which I have heard from my Father." — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:33
Paul did not say that God's judgments were hard to search out but that they could not be searched out at all. He did not say that God's ways were hard to find out but that they were impossible to find out. For however far one may advance in the search and make progress through an increasingly earnest study, even when aided and enlightened in the mind by God's grace, he will never be able to reach the final goal of his inquiries. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 4.1.26
Romanos 11:34
This refers to creatures, but the other members of the Trinity are excepted because they have nothing in common with the nature of creatures. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 11:36
Paul declares that God is the beginning of the substance of all things by the words "of him" and the bond of their subsistence by the expression "through him" and their final end by the term "to him." — AGAINST CELSUS 6.65
Romanos 11:36
You see how here, [as in the previous verses,] Paul indicates the mystery of the Trinity. For when he says from him and through him and to him, this corresponds to the one God and Father, from whom are all things, and our one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things. Likewise he says that all things are revealed by the Spirit of God, thus indicating that the providence of the Trinity is present in everything. When he talks about the height of riches he means the Father, from whom all things come; when he talks about the height of wisdom he means Christ, who is the wisdom of God; and when he talks about the depth of knowledge he is referring to the Holy Spirit, who knows the deep things of God.Paul adds "forever" to indicate that the perfection of all things is not bound by time but will extend to eternity and even be increased. He further adds "Amen" so that we might understand that we are coming to that blessedness through him, of whom it is written in the Apocalypse: "These are the words of the Amen." — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS