ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v10c

GOD GRANTS EFFICACY TO OUR LABORS. BASIL: This is the perfect and consummate glory in God: not to exult in one’s own righteousness, but recognizing oneself as lacking true righteousness, to be justified by faith in Christ alone. Paul gloried in despising his own righteousness. In seeking after the righteousness by faith which is of God through Christ, he sought only to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death, so as to attain to the resurrection from the dead. … It is God who grants efficacy to our labors. ON HUMILITY 20.

A LARGER MEASURE OF HELP. CHRYSOSTOM: Did you see how he reaped the benefit of God’s liberality and then how abundantly he contributed his own share, by his zeal, his fervor, his faith, his courage, his patience, his lofty mind and his undaunted will? This is why he deserved a larger measure of help from above. BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS 4.10.

GRACE AND LABOR. AUGUSTINE: Paul did not labor in order to receive grace, but he received grace so that he might labor. PROCEEDINGS OF PELAGIUS 14.36.

NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT GOD’S HELP. AUGUSTINE: How, then, is God’s commandment accomplished, even with difficulty, without his help, since if the Lord does not build, the builder is said to have labored in vain. LETTER 186, FROM ALYPIUS AND AUGUSTINE TO PAULINUS.

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