ACC ~ Romans 4 v14

RIGHTEOUSNESS IMPUTED TO FAITH. ORIGEN: Paul says that the promise given to Abraham that he should inherit the world did not come from the law but by faith, which was reckoned to him as righteousness. It doubtless follows that everyone who hopes that God’s righteousness will be imputed to him hopes for this by faith and not by the law. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

AMBROSIASTER: The apostle shows that there is something wicked in hoping for an inheritance by the law. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE PROMISE MADE VOID. CHRYSOSTOM: To prevent anyone from saying that it is possible to have faith and to keep the law at the same time, Paul shows that this is impracticable. For one who clings to the law as if it were of saving force dishonors the power of faith. This is why Paul says that faith is made void, i.e., that there is no need of salvation by grace. … And without faith, there is no promise of inheritance, which is what scared the Jews most of all, because that is what they really wanted. For the promise was that they should be heirs of the entire world. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 8.

PELAGIUS: If only the circumcised are heirs, God has not fulfilled his promise to Abraham that he would be the father of many nations, and it will seem that the nations believed in God without any reason. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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