ACC ~ Romans 3 v29

FATHER OF THOSE WHO KNOW HIM. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: One righteous person is no different from another righteous person, whether Jew or Greek. For God is not only the Lord of the Jews but of all humanity. He is the Father of all who know him. To live well and according to the law is to live. To live rationally according to reason is to live. Those who lived rightly before the law were classed under faith and judged to be righteous. Those who were outside the law, having lived rightly, on hearing the voice of the Lord … may turn and believe with all speed. STROMATA 6.6.

ONE FLOCK OF GOD. TERTULLIAN: Is not all humankind one flock of God? Is not the same God both Lord and Shepherd of all nations?ON MODESTY.

GOD OF LAW AND GOSPEL. ORIGEN: Here Paul gives a short sharp answer to those who would say that there is one God for the Jews and another for the Gentiles, i.e., one God of the law and another of the gospel. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

THE GOD OF THE GENTILES. AMBROSIASTER: Undoubtedly there is only one God for everybody. For even the Jews cannot claim that their God is not the God of the Gentiles also, because they believe that the origin of all people is from the one Adam and that no one who comes willingly to the law may be prevented from accepting it. Some Gentiles actually went with the Israelites into the desert of Egypt, and the Israelites were ordered to accept them as long as they agreed to be circumcised and eat unleavened bread, or the Passover, together with the rest of them. Then again Cornelius, a Gentile who was not judaized, received the gift of God, and it is clear from holy Scripture that he was justified.COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

GOD OF ALL. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul shows that the Jews, by trying to put the Gentiles in their place, were insulting God’s glory by not allowing him to be the God of all. But if God is God of all, then he takes care of all, and if he takes care of all, then he saves all alike by faith. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 7.

ABRAHAM RIGHTEOUS BEFORE HIS CIRCUMCISION. PELAGIUS: Did God create only the Jews, and is he exclusively concerned with them? For even if the Gentiles sinned, so did the Jews, and even if the Jews repent, so do the Gentiles. If Christ came to the Jews as promised by the law, he came to the Gentiles as well. For the prophets often spoke of the calling of the Gentiles. Paul wants to show the Gentiles that the first saints had not been circumcised and that Abraham was righteous before his circumcision. But he adds “as well,” so as not to appear to be excluding the Jews. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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