ACC ~ Romans 10 v4

THE INTENT OF THE LAW. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: The Jews did not understand the intention of the law and so failed to practice it. They made up their own version and thought that that was what the law intended. They had no faith in the prophetic power of the law. They followed the bare letter, not the inner meaning—fear, not faith. STROMATA 2.9.42.5.

THE END OF THE LAW. IRENAEUS: How is Christ the end of the law if he is not also the cause of it? For he who has brought in the end also created the beginning. AGAINST HERESIES 4.12.3.

ORIGEN: Christ is the end of the law, but only for those who believe. Those who do not believe and who do not have Christ do not have the end of the law and therefore cannot come to justification. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

NOVATIAN: There was indeed a time long ago when attention was to be paid to these shadows and figures prescribing abstinence from foods pronounced good in their creation but forbidden by the law. When Christ, “the end of the law,” came, he cleared up all the ambiguities of the law and all those things which antiquity had shrouded in mystery. JEWISH FOODS 5.1-2.

APOLLINARIS OF LAODICEA: Christ furnishes believers with holy righteousness, because he is “the end of the law,” and the law prepared the way for Christ by showing that he was the fulfillment of it, the salvation of mankind.PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

EVERYONE WHO HAS FAITH MAY BE JUSTIFIED. CHRYSOSTOM: There is only one righteousness, which finds its fulfillment in Christ. … Even someone who has failed to keep the law properly will be righteous if he has Christ … but the man who does not have Christ is a stranger to the law as well. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 17.

PELAGIUS: On the day that one believes in Christ it is as if one has fulfilled the whole law. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

SEVERIAN: This does not mean that Christ is a part of the law but rather that he is the beginning of a new life. The law has come to an end; it has ceased. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

GENNADIUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE: Christ fulfilled the law’s purpose by granting the righteousness which comes by faith in him to all those who accepted him. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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