Romanos 3
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 3:3
God knew in advance who would obey the law and who would break it. Therefore those who did not believe were unable to stand in the way of his blessings. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 3:4
Human beings are thus given over to their own free will. Hence they are divided into two groups: those who prefer the worship of God and those who take the opposite path and come to a dire end, corresponding to their choice. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 3:8
This was not the intention of the apostles' teaching. On the contrary, they demanded that everyone abstain from all manner of wickedness. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 3:25
The mercy seat was gold-plated and placed on top of the ark. On each side was the figure of a cherub. When the high priest approached it, the holy kindness of God was revealed.The apostle teaches us that Christ is the true mercy seat, of which the one in the Old Testament was but a type. The name applies to Christ in his humanity, not in his divinity. For as God Christ responded to the expiation made at the mercy seat. It is as man that he receives this label, just as elsewhere he is called a sheep, a lamb, sin and a curse. Furthermore, the ancient mercy seat was bloodless because it was inanimate. It could only receive the drops of blood pouring from the sacrificial victims. But the Lord Christ is both God and the mercy seat, both the priest and the lamb, and he performed the work of our salvation by his blood, demanding only faith from us. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 3:27
By "boasting" Paul means the proud spirits of the Jews and their excessive arrogance. For they thought they were the only ones who enjoyed God's providence. But after the divine grace appeared and spread to all nations, the boasting of the Jews ceased.… Paul calls faith a law, recalling the words of the prophet Jeremiah: "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers." — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS