ACC ~ Romans 6 v18

TRUTH SETS YOU FREE. ORIGEN: What is it which sets us free from sin? Knowledge of the truth, of course! This is what Jesus said to the Jews: “If you believe my word, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

REPARENTING THE ORPHAN. CHRYSOSTOM: There are two gifts of God which Paul points out here. First there is the freeing from sin, and then there is the making of slaves of righteousness, which is better than any freedom. For God has done the same as if a person was to take an orphan who had been carried away by savages into their own country, and was not only to free him from captivity but to set a kind father over him and raise him to a very great dignity. This is what has happened in our case. For it was not just that God freed us from our old evils; he also led us into the life of angels. He opened the way for us to enjoy the best life, handing us over to the safekeeping of righteousness and killing our former evils, putting the old man in us to death and bringing us to eternal life. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 11.

WE HAVE THROWN OFF THE YOKE. [PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Paul teaches that we who have been delivered from the burden and chain of the law of Moses ought not to sin, because being redeemed by the grace of Christ we have thrown off the yoke of the law. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

NOW ELIMINATE OPPORTUNITIES TO SIN. PELAGIUS: This is according to the teaching and example of Christ, who has taught us to get rid not only of sins but also of opportunities to sin. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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