ACC ~ Romans 8 v37

RELYING ON GOD’S LOVE. ORIGEN: As long as we rely on God’s love, we suffer no feeling of pain. For his love, by which he loved us and drew us to him, makes us not feel the pain and crucifixion of the body. In all these things we are more than conquerors. The bride in the Song of Songs says something similar: “I am wounded with love.” In the same way our soul, once it has received Christ’s wound of love, will not feel the wounds of the flesh, even if it gives the body over to the sword. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

SHOWING ENDURANCE. BASIL: He conquers who does not yield to those who lead on by force, but he is more than conqueror who voluntarily invites sorrows for a demonstration of his endurance. HOMILIES 22.

CONQUERING WONDROUSLY. CHRYSOSTOM: They did not merely conquer but did so in a wondrous way, so that it might become clear that those who plotted against them were at war with God and not just with men. Look how the Jews were at a loss: “What are we to do with these men?” HOMILIES ON ROMANS 15.

THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US. PELAGIUS: All these troubles we count as nothing because of him who loved us so much that he even dies for us. And we especially triumph when we die for his name, since it is a light thing to suffer what the Lord first suffered for others. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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