ACC ~ Romans 15 v27

SERVICE IN MATERIAL BLESSINGS. AMBROSIASTER: In this way the believers among the Jews would rejoice at God’s providential saving of the Gentiles through their ministry. For these Gentiles, by giving themselves completely to the service of God and not caring at all about the things of this world, offered an example of good behavior to believers. Then too, the apostle wants us to be sympathetic and merciful so that we might feel obliged to give alms and to do good works with a willing heart, because whoever hopes for mercy from God must be merciful, in order to prove that he has some reason for his hope. For if a man is merciful, how much more is God! For this is the payment or reward, that those who receive mercy should be merciful. As the Lord said: “Blessed are the merciful, for God will be merciful to them.”COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE GENTILES SHARE IN THEIR SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS. PELAGIUS: By example Paul incites the Romans to a similar effort, indicating that there was a good reason why it seemed good to them. The Gentiles had obtained teachers from the Jews and so … they ought to share their abundance with them. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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