ACC ~ Romans 14 v7

NO ONE DIES TO HIMSELF. ORIGEN: We must not please ourselves but rather assume the example of Christ, who alone died to sin, so that by imitating him we too might become strangers to sin and die to it. We do not have this example of living in ourselves, but we get it from Christ.COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

THE WILL TO LIVE FOR ONESELF. AMBROSIASTER: A man would be living for himself if he did not act according to the law. But whoever is controlled by the brake of the law is not living for himself but for God, who gave the law so that it might be possible to live according to his will. Likewise, whoever dies dies to God, for he is the Judge who will either condemn or reward him. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

DEATH AS APOSTASY. CHRYSOSTOM: This means that we are not free. We have a master who wants us to live and not die, and to whom life and death matter more than they do to us. … For if we die, we do not die to ourselves alone but to our master as well. By “death,” Paul means apostasy from the faith. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 25.

PELAGIUS: No believer lives for himself or dies for himself, because “Christ has died for all, so that those who live no longer live for themselves but for him.”PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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