Romanos 4
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Romanos 4:2
The accomplishment of good works honors those who do them, but it does not reveal the kindness of God. Faith, on the other hand, reveals both the love for God of the one who believes and God's kindness. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:4
The doer of righteousness expects a reward, but justification by faith is the gift of the God of all. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:6
After demonstrating by the example of the patriarch Abraham that faith is older than the law, Paul quotes a further witness in support of his position, viz., David the prophet and king. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:10
Paul demonstrates that faith was not only older than the law, it was older than circumcision as well. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:12
If a Gentile who has not been circumcised follows Abraham's faith, which he manifested before being circumcised, he will not be rejected. For the God of all, since he had foreseen as God that he would gather one people from both Jews and Gentiles and prepare for them salvation by faith, had appointed Abraham as their father as well. Paul had demonstrated that Abraham had acquired righteousness by faith before being circumcised and that even after being circumcised he lived not according to the law of Moses but by clinging to his faith. Hence Paul called him the father of the Gentiles who believe. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:16
Paul humbled the pride of the Jews by calling all those who imitated Abraham's faith "the seed of Abraham," even if they were of a different race. For if the law punishes those who break it, grace gives forgiveness of sins and confirms the promise of God, giving a blessing to the Gentiles. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:18
Abraham believed against the hope of nature but in the hope of the promise of God. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS
Romanos 4:25
Christ underwent suffering for our sins in order to pay our debt and so that his resurrection might prefigure the general resurrection of us all. — INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS