ACC ~ Romans 4 v19

TRUSTING GOD MORE THAN HIS HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD BODY. ORIGEN: This may be understood literally or figuratively. In the literal sense, Abraham did not put his trust in his hundred-year-old body, which was obviously incapable of doing what God had promised him, but rather he trusted in God, the Almighty One who could perform what he had promised even when the laws of human fertility no longer functioned. … Figuratively, however, it may be understood in the light of what Paul says elsewhere: “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you.” It would be absurd to suggest that what Paul had in this respect was somehow lacking to Abraham. For Abraham also had put his earthly members to death, being neither excited by luxury nor inflamed by lust. … Sarah likewise did not suffer from lust or the desires of the flesh. … When they heard what God had promised them, they did not consider their own benefit. … All these things that would make them rich they regarded as worthless in order that they might win Christ, whose coming they foresaw. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

PELAGIUS: Faith takes no aspect of nature into account, because it knows that the one who spoke is almighty. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

OECUMENIUS: Paul was right to say: “about a hundred,” because Abraham was not a hundred but only ninety-nine years old. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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