ACC ~ Romans 3 v18

WHAT OUGHT TO BE FEARED. ORIGEN: If someone is always thinking of what will please or displease God, then it can be said that the fear of God is always before his eyes. But such a person must be experienced and diligently instructed in the law of God so as not to be afraid when there is no reason to fear. For the fear of God must always be placed before our eyes: not the eyes of the flesh—for it is not something visible or corporeal that we are talking about here—but the eyes of the mind, to which an understanding and awareness of the fear of God are evident and by which, as we have said above, we can discover what ought and ought not to be feared. The one who fears God does not fear the powers of this world. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

NO FEAR OF GOD. AMBROSIASTER: Since people of this kind have no sense, they have no fear of God. For “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,” says Solomon. But Scripture did not say that they did not have the fear of God. It said: “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” For seeing how evil their works were and not being horrified by them, they are said not to have the fear of God before their eyes. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

PELAGIUS: Paul concludes with the fear of God, because if the people had always kept that before their eyes they would not have transgressed, for a servant will not dare sin when his master is present. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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