ACC ~ Romans 4 v25

PUT TO DEATH FOR OUR TRESPASSES. ORIGEN: Paul says this in order to show that we ought to hate and reject the things for which Christ died. For if we believe that he was sacrificed for our sins, how can we not consider every sin to be alien and hostile to us, considering that our Lord was handed over to death because of it? . . .

If we have risen together with Christ, who is our justification, and we now walk in newness of life and live according to righteousness, then Christ has risen for the purpose of our justification. But if we have not yet cast off the old man with all his works but instead live in unrighteousness, I dare to suggest that Christ has not yet risen for our justification, nor has he been sacrificed for our sins. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

WE CANNOT BE HELD BY DEATH. AMBROSIASTER: Those who were baptized before Christ’s passion received only the remission of their sins. … But after the resurrection both those who were baptized before and those who were baptized after were all justified by the set form of faith in the Trinity, and they received the Holy Spirit, who is the sign of believers that they are children of God. … For by the Savior’s passion death is vanquished. Once it was dominant because of sin, but it does not dare to hang on to those who have been justified by God. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

WHY CRUCIFIED AND RAISED. CHRYSOSTOM: After mentioning the cause of Christ’s death, Paul goes on to make the same cause a demonstration of the resurrection. For why was Christ crucified? Not for any sins of his own—and this is plain from the resurrection. For if Christ had been a sinner, how could he have risen from the dead? So if he did rise, it is clear that he was not a sinner. … Moreover, Christ did not die in order to make us liable to punishment and condemnation but in order to do good to us. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 9.

RAISED FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION. [PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Christ was not raised for justice (which would have condemned us) but for our justification. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

PELAGIUS: Christ wiped away our sins by his death, and, rising again in the same state as the one in which he died, he appeared to believers in order to confirm their righteousness. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

HIS RESURRECTION PREFIGURES THE GENERAL RESURRECTION. THEODORET OF CYR: Christ underwent suffering for our sins in order to pay our debt and so that his resurrection might prefigure the general resurrection of us all. INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.