ACC ~ Romans 9 v12

JACOB HAD NO MERITORIOUS WORKS BEFORE HE WAS BORN. AUGUSTINE: No one could say that Jacob had conciliated God by meritorious works before he was born, so that God should say this of him. … Nor had Isaac conciliated God by any previous meritorious works, so that his birth should have been promised. … Good works do not produce grace, but are produced by grace. TO SIMPLICIAN ON VARIOUS QUESTIONS 1.2.3.

PELAGIUS: Here Paul shows that the people who came afterward belonged to the promise after the manner of Isaac. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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