ACC ~ Romans 3 v6

THE WHOLE WORLD. ORIGEN: In this passage the word world means the people who are in this world, just as we read elsewhere that “the whole world is in the power of the evil one.” COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

WHETHER OUR SINS ARE OF SOME BENEFIT TO GOD. AMBROSIASTER: It is true that it would not have been just if God had judged the world if its sins were of some benefit to him, so that whenever sinners received forgiveness at his nod, God would appear to be good. Then if they had not sinned, according to this reasoning, he would not appear to be righteous. For if they had not sinned there would be nothing to forgive, and God would not be good. But this kind of thinking is absurd! COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT. [PSEUDO-] CONSTANTIUS: Paul taught after the authority of the Scriptures that God is righteous. Therefore when we come into judgment with him, he demonstrates that it is said by the very meaning of the text that God may rightly wreak vengeance on evildoers. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

PELAGIUS: By what righteousness will God condemn the unrighteous, if in your opinion human wickedness makes him even more righteous? PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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