ACC ~ Romans 8 v25

PATIENT WAITING. CYPRIAN: Patient waiting is necessary that we may fulfill what we have begun to be and, through God’s help, that we may obtain what we hope for and believe. THE GOOD OF PATIENCE 13.

WE WAIT WITH PATIENCE. AMBROSIASTER: Patience is greatly approved of by God, for by daily waiting it desires the coming of the kingdom of God and does not doubt just because it delays. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

HOPE DISTINGUISHED FROM PATIENCE. CHRYSOSTOM: Hope is feeling confidence in things to come. … The name of patience belongs to hard work and to much endurance. But even this he grants to the one who hopes in order to comfort the weary soul. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 14.

AUGUSTINE: Patience trains up the longing. Wait, for he waits. Walk on steadfastly that you may reach the end. He will not leave that place to which you are moving. HOMILIES ON 1 JOHN 4.7.

PELAGIUS: The reward for faith with patience is great, because we believe what we do not yet see, and we are as sure of what we have not yet received as if we have already received it. As Paul says to the Hebrews: “You have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.” PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

THE METAPHOR OF THE EGG. BEDE: The certainty of our hope is prefigured by the egg. No offspring is as yet discernible in the egg, but the birth of the bird to come is hoped for. The faithful do not yet look upon the glory of the fatherland on high in which they believe at the present time, but they await its coming in hope. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPELS 11.14.

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