ACC ~ Romans 15 v3

CHRIST DID NOT PLEASE HIMSELF. ORIGEN: Christ did not please himself nor did he think it was robbery to be equal with God, but wanting to please men, that is, to save them, he suffered the reproaches of those who reproached God, as it is written. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

CHRIST’S PLEASURE IN DOING THE WILL OF THE ONE WHO SENT HIM. AMBROSIASTER: In the sixty-eighth Psalm [LXX] the Savior says that he did not come to please himself but God the Father. For because he said: “I did not come down from heaven to do my will but the will of him who sent me,” the Jews objected and put him to death as a sinner. Therefore the psalmist puts himself in Christ’s place and says: “The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me.”COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

CHRYSOSTOM: Paul always points to Christ’s self-sacrifice when he asks us to make sacrifices. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 27.

CHRIST SUFFERED REPROACH. PELAGIUS: An imitator and disciple of Christ does not seek his own advantage. Christ died for the salvation of others and bore the most bitter reproach. … But whatever insults are cast, not only upon Christ but also upon the saints for God’s sake, are cast upon God himself. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

NOT AS I WILL. THEODORET OF CYR: Remember the words of Christ’s prayer concerning his passion: “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.” INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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