ACC ~ Romans 2 v22

ROBBING THE WORD OF ITS MEANING. ORIGEN: These words could equally well be applied to the heretics who call themselves Christians. … Since they rob the Word of God of its true meaning and seduce the minds of their hearers by their perverse interpretation, joining an adulterated kind of faith to the bride of Christ which is the church, this [verse] fits them exactly. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

ADULTERERS OF THE WORD. AMBROSIASTER: The Jew adulterates the law by removing the truth of Christ from it and putting lies in his place. In another of his epistles Paul writes: “They are adulterers of God’s Word.” A man is sacrilegious when he denies Christ, whom the law and the prophets call God.Did the Jews ever say, “Thou art God and we did not know it” of God the Father, when the entire law proclaims the authority of God the Father, by whom all things are made? But when the Son of God appeared, what he was was hidden and not revealed until after the resurrection. It was then that it was said of him: “Thou art God and we did not know it.” COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE MEANING OF ADULTERY. PELAGIUS: There is not just one kind of adultery, for you commit adultery if you give anyone other than God what the soul owes exclusively to him. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

ROBBING TEMPLES. CHRYSOSTOM: It was strictly forbidden for Jews to touch any of the treasures deposited in heathen temples, because they would be defiled. But Paul claims here that the tyranny of greed has persuaded them to disregard the law at this point. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 6.

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