ACC ~ Romans 8 v31

HOW GOD IS FOR US. ORIGEN: How God can be for us is made clear by what Paul has expounded in the preceding verses. It is because the Spirit of God dwells in us and because the Spirit of Christ, or Christ himself, is in us … because we act in the power of God’s Spirit, because we have received the Spirit of adoption, because we are children of God, heirs and fellow heirs of Christ. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? AMBROSIASTER: Who would dare attack us when the Judge himself has foreknown us and pronounced us to be suitable? COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

CHRYSOSTOM: Paul was saying: “Let me hear no more about the dangers and evils which beset you on all sides. For even if some do not believe in the things to come, still they have not a word to say against the good things which have already taken place, e.g., God’s friendship toward you from the beginning, his justifying work, the glory which he gives, and so on.”

The world is against us, but … in spite of itself it has become the source of endless blessing for us. So in reality nobody is against us! HOMILIES ON ROMANS 15.

PELAGIUS: Paul wants to show that nobody can keep those who love God and who are loved by God from attaining the glory which has been promised, because the perfect love which is in them casts out every reason for mortal fear. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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