ACC ~ Romans 8 v32

FOR US ALL. ORIGEN: The Father gave up his Son not only for the holy and the great but also for the least and for all everywhere who are members of the church. Therefore anyone who offends the conscience of even the least and weakest of these is said to be sinning against Christ, because he is scandalizing a soul for whom Christ died. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

AMBROSE: Who can grieve because a security especially dear to him has been taken away, when for our comfort the Father delivered his only Son to death for us? ON THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 1.4.

GOD DID NOT SPARE HIS SON. AMBROSIASTER: Paul urges us to rest assured on account of our faith by showing us that God gave up his Son to death on our behalf even before we had ceased being sinners, because he knew in advance that we would believe. He says that God long ago decided that all those who believed in Christ would be rewarded. Thus if God is prepared to give us the greatest things, even to the point of sacrificing his own Son on our behalf, how can we not believe that he will give us the lesser things as well? For the believer’s rewards are already waiting. Giving them to us is not nearly as difficult as handing Christ over to death for our sake. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE TRUTH AND ITS SHADOW. CHRYSOSTOM: Up to this point there was shadow, but now the truth of things is shown to be more excellent. This rational Lamb, you see, was offered for the whole world; he purified the whole world; he freed human beings from error and led them forward to the truth; he made earth into heaven, not by altering the nature of the elements but by transferring life in heaven to human beings on earth. Through him all worship of demons is made pointless; through him people no longer worship wood and stone, nor do those endowed with reason bow down to material things—instead, all error has been abolished and the light of truth has shone brightly on the world. Do you see the superiority of the truth? Do you see what shadow is, on the one hand, and truth on the other? HOMILIES ON GENESIS 47.14.

THE SACRIFICE OF THE SON. [PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Paul is here attacking the heresy of the Patripassians [who believed that the Father had suffered and died on the cross]. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

PELAGIUS: God allowed Christ to be handed over in order to preserve the freedom of choice of those who handed him over and to set us an example of patience. How can God have anything dearer to offer us? He offered us his only Son. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

THEODORET OF CYR: Would God give us the greater thing but not the lesser? Would he sacrifice his Son but withhold his possessions from us? Note too that there is one person of the Son. His human nature was given for us by his divinity. INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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