ACC ~ Romans 11 v29

WHETHER SORROW IS REQUIRED. AMBROSIASTER: It is usually thought that those who have sinned badly by not accepting the promise of God cannot receive mercy if they do not demonstrate their sorrow, because those who have sinned badly cannot be forgiven without tears and wailing. But Paul shows that these things are not required at the start, because God’s gift freely pardons sins in baptism. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

IRREVOCABLE. AUGUSTINE: For God to order his future works in his foreknowledge, which cannot be deceived or changed, is entirely (and nothing other than) to predestine. But just as he whom God has foreknown to be chaste, al-though this may be unclear to him, acts in such a way as to be chaste, so he whom God has predestined to be chaste, although this may be unclear to him, does not, simply because he hears that by God’s gift he will be what he will be, fail to act so as to be chaste. Indeed, his charity is delighted, and he is not puffed up as if he had not received it. Not only is he not hindered from the work of charity by the preaching of predestination, but on the contrary he is helped in this task, so that when he glories he may glory in the Lord.GIFT OF PERSEVERANCE 17.

THE PROMISE HOLDS. PELAGIUS: If they believe, their sins will not be counted against them, because God does not repent that he made a promise with Abraham’s descendants. Or it may mean if they believe they will be saved without the anguish of penance. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

SAUL AND SOLOMON ARGUE FOR REVOCABILITY. THEODORET OF CYR: Paul says this in order to encourage the Jews. In fact, of course, God did revoke the good gifts which he gave … King Saul, for example, who received spiritual grace which later deserted him. Likewise Solomon, who received peace through the kindness of God, but after his transgression was deprived of grace.And then there are the Jews themselves, who always had their prophets to take care of them but who at the present time have been deprived of them. INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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