In epistula ad Romanos commentarius (CCEL)
Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans
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A select library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., professor of church history in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. In connection with a number of patristic scholars of Europe and America. Volume XI: Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the epistle to the Romans. T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1889. (Translation, Englisch)
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- Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans
- Homily I.
- Rom. I. 1, 2
- Ver. 2. "Which He promised afore by His Prophets in the Holy Scriptures."
- Ver. 3. "Concerning His Son which was made of the seed of David, according to the flesh."
- Ver. 4. "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ."
- Ver. 5. "By Whom we have received grace and Apostleship for obedience to the faith."
- Ver. 6. "Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ."
- Ver. 7. "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
- Homily II.
- Rom. I. 8
- Ver. 9. "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of His Son."
- Ver. 10, 11. "Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you."
- Ver. 11. "That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established."
- Ver. 12. "That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me."
- Ver. 13. "Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I desired to come unto you (but was let hitherto)."
- Ver. 14. "I am a debtor to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise."
- Ver. 15. "So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also."
- Ver. 16. "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel."
- Ver. 17. "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed."
- Homily III.
- Ver. I. 18
- Ver. 19. "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them."
- Ver. 20. "For the invisible things of Him from the Creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made."
- Ver. 21. "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God."
- Ver. 22. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
- Ver. 23. "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things."
- Ver. 24. "Wherefore also God gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves."
- Ver. 25. "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator."
- Homily IV.
- Homily V.
- Ver. I. 28
- Ver. 29. "Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness."
- Ver. 30. "Whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,"
- Ver. 31. "Without natural affection, implacable."
- Ver. 32. "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
- Chap. ii. ver. 1. "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man; whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself."
- Ver. 2. "For we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who commit such things."
- Ver. 3. "And thinkest thou this" (4 mss. om. this), "O man, that judgest those which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?"
- Ver. 4. "Or despiseth thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and long-sufferring; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?"
- Ver. 5. "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath."
- Ver. 6, 7. "Who will render to every man according to his deeds, to them who by patient continuance in well doing," etc.
- Ver. 7. "To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life."
- Ver. 8. "But unto them that are contentious," he says. Again, he deprives of excuse those that live in wickedness, and shows that it is from a kind of disputatiousness and carelessness that they fall into unrighteousness.
- Ver. 9. "Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil."
- Ver. 10. "But glory, honor, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile."
- Ver. 11. "For there is no respect of persons with God."
- Ver. 12. "For as many," he says, "as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law."
- Ver 13. "For not the hearers of the law are just before God."
- Ver. 14. "For when the Gentiles," he says, "which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves."
- Ver. 15. "Which show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another."
- Ver. 16. "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel."
- Homily VI.
- Ver. II. 17, 18
- Ver. 19. "And art confident that thou thyself."
- Ver. 20. "An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and truth, which is in the Law."
- Ver. 21. "Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?"
- Ver. 23. "Thou that makest a boast in the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God?"
- Ver. 24. "For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you." (Is. lii. 5; Ez. xxxvi. 20, 23.)
- Ver. 25. "For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the Law."
- Ver. 26. "Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be turned into circumcision?"
- Ver. 27. "And shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature judge?"
- Ver. 12. "For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly."
- Ver. 29. "But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter."
- Chap. iii. ver. 1. "What advantage then hath the Jew?"
- Ver. 2. "Much every way: chiefly, because that they were entrusted with the oracles of God."
- Ver. 3. "For what if some did not believe?"
- Ver. 4. "God forbid." The word episteuthesan, then, proclaims God's gift.
- Ver. 5. "But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? is God unrighteous Who taketh vengeance? I speak as a man."
- Ver. 6. "God forbid."
- Ver. 7. "For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His glory: why yet am I also judged as a sinner?"
- Ver. 8. "If not (as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil that good may come? Whose damnation is just."
- Homily VII.
- Ver. III. 9-18
- Ver. 19. "Now we know that what things soever the Law saith, it saith to them who are under the Law."
- Ver. 20. "For by the Law is the knowledge of sin."
- Ver. 21. "But now the righteousness of God without the Law is manifested."
- Ver. 24, 25. "Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness."
- Ver. 27. "Where is boasting then? it is excluded," he says. "By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith."
- Ver. 28. "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law."
- Ver. 29. "Is He the God of the Jews only?"
- Ver. 30. "Seeing it is one God."
- Ver. 31. "Do we then," he says, "make void the Law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law."
- Homily VIII.
- Ver. IV. 1, 2
- Ver. 4. "For to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt."
- Ver. 5. "To him that believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly."
- Ver. 7. "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven."
- Ver. 9. "Cometh this blessedness then" (which is the greater thing) "upon the circumcision or upon the uncircumcision?"
- Ver. 11. "He received it," he says, "a sign and seal of the righteousness that was by the faith, which he had being yet uncircumcised."
- Ver. 12. "Which he had being yet uncircumcised."
- Ver. 14. "For if they which are of the Law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect."
- Ver. 15. "Because the Law worketh wrath: for where no Law is, there is no transgression."
- Ver. 16. "Therefore it is of faith," he says, "that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed."
- Ver. 17. "As it is written," he says, "I have made thee a father of many nations."
- Ver. 18. "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be."
- Ver. 19. "And being not weak in faith, he considered his own body now dead."
- Ver. 20. "But he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief."
- Ver. 21. "And being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able also to perform."
- Homily IX.
- Ver. IV. 23
- Ver. 25. "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."
- Chap. v. ver. 1. "Therefore being justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
- Ver. 2. "By Whom also we have access," he says, "by faith unto this grace. (7 mss. add, unto, etc.)
- Ver. 3. "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also."
- Ver. 4, 5. "And patience experience, and experience hope; and hope maketh not ashamed."
- Ver. 6-8. "For while we were yet without strength, Christ in due time died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet pervadenture for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love towards us."
- Ver. 9, 10. "Much more then, being now justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life."
- Ver. 11. "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the atonement."
- Homily X.
- Ver. V. 12
- Ver. 13. "For until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law."
- Ver. 15. "But not as the offence, so is also the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto the many."
- Ver. 16. "And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification."
- Ver. 17. "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift and (so Field with most mss.) of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."
- Ver. 18. "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."
- Ver. 19. "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.
- Ver. 20. "Moreover the Law entered: that the offence might abound."
- Ver. 21. "That as sin reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ."
- Chap. vi. ver. 1. "What then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid."
- Ver. 2. "How shall we," he says, "that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"
- Ver. 3, 4. "Know ye not," he says, "my brethren, that so many of us as were baptized into Christ were baptized into His death? therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death."
- Homily XI.
- Ver. VI. 5
- Ver. 6. "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed."
- Ver. 7. "For he that is dead," he says, "is freed (Gr. justified) from sin."
- Ver. 8. "Now if we be dead with Christ."
- Ver. 9. "That Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more."
- Ver. 10. "He died unto sin."
- Ver. 11. "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God."
- Ver. 12. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof."
- Ver. 13. "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin...but as instruments of righteousness."
- Ver. 14. "For sin shall no more have dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under grace."
- Ver. 15. "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid."
- Ver. 16. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
- Ver. 17. "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you." (Lit. "into which ye were delivered.")
- Ver. 18. "Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness."
- Homily XII.
- Ver. VI. 19
- Ver. 20. "For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness."
- Ver. 21. "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?"
- Ver. 22. "For now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."
- Ver. 23. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord."
- Chap. vii. ver. 1. "Know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the Law."
- Ver. 2, 3. "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the Law to her husband, so long as he liveth: but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the Law of her husband. So then, if while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she is called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man."
- Ver. 5. "For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the Law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death."
- Ver. 6. "But now," he says, "we are delivered from the Law." (katergethemen, "made of no effect.")
- Ver. 7. "What then? is the Law sin? God forbid."
- Ver. 8. "But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence."
- Ver. 9. "For I was alive without the Law once."
- Ver. 11. "For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me, and by it slew me."
- Ver. 12. "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
- Ver. 13. "Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin that it might appear sin." (4 mss. om. he.)
- Homily XIII.
- Ver. VII. 14
- Ver. 15. "For that which I do, I know not."
- Ver. 16. "If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the Law, that it is good."
- Ver 17, 18. "Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing."
- Ver. 19, 20. "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me."
- Ver. 21. "I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me."
- Ver. 22. "For I delight," he says, "in the law of God after the inward man."
- Ver. 23. "But I see another law warring against the law of my mind."
- Ver. 24. "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
- Ver. 25. "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
- Chap. viii. ver. 1. "There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus."
- Ver. 2. "For the law of the Spirit of life hath made me free."
- Ver. 3. "For what the Law could not do," he saith, "in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh."
- Ver. 4. "That the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh."
- Ver. 5. "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh."
- Ver. 6. "For to be carnally minded is death."
- Ver. 7. "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:"
- Ver. 8. "So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
- Ver. 9. "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit."
- Ver. 10. "And if Christ be in you."
- Ver. 11. "But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up our Lord shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you."
- Homily XIV.
- Ver. VIII. 12, 13
- Ver. 14. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
- Ver. 15. "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear."
- Ver. 16. "The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God."
- Ver. 17. "And if children, then heirs."
- Ver. 18. "The sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in (Gr. eis) us."
- Ver. 19, 20. "For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth," he says, "for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope."
- Ver. 21. "That the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption."
- Ver. 22. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
- Ver. 23. "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves."
- Ver. 24. "For we are saved by hope," he says.
- Ver. 25.--"But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
- Ver. 26. "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities."
- Ver. 27. "But He that searcheth the hearts."
- Homily XV.
- Ver. VIII. 28
- Ver. 29. "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His Son."
- Ver. 30. "Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified."
- Ver. 31. "What shall we then say to these things?"
- Ver. 32. "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
- Ver. 33. "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?"
- Ver. 34. "Who is He that condemneth?
- Ver. 35. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
- Ver. 36. "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." (Ps. xliv. 22.)
- Ver. 37. "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."
- Ver. 38, 39. "For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
- Homily XVI.
- Ver. IX. 1
- Ver. 2, 3. "That I have a great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ."
- Ver. 4, 5. "To whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the father's, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."
- Ver. 6. "Not as though the word of God had taken none effect."
- Ver. 7. "Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children."
- Ver. 8. "That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise, these are counted for the seed."
- Ver. 9. "At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son."
- Ver. 10. "And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac."
- Ver. 11-13. "For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
- Ver. 15. "For I will have mercy, He says, on whom I will have mercy, and I will show compassion on whom I will show compassion." (Ex. xxxiii. 19.)
- Ver. 10. "And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one."
- Ver. 14. "What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid."
- Ver. 15. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
- Ver. 16, 17. "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth."
- Ver. 18, 19. "Therefore He hath mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he then find fault? For who hath resisted His will?"
- Ver. 20. "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
- Ver. 20, 2l. "Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why hast Thou made me thus? Hath not the potter (Read Jer. xviii. 1-10) power, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?"
- Ver. 22, 23, 24. "What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He hath chosen, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles."
- Ver. 25. "I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved."
- Ver. 26. "For even they shall be called," he says, "the children of the living God."
- Ver. 27. "For Esaias," he says, "crieth concerning Israel."
- Ver. 28. "He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness," he says, "because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." (Ib. 23, LXX.)
- Ver 29. "And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and had been made like unto Gomorrha." (Is. i. 9.)
- Ver. 30, 31. "What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness."
- Ver. 32. "Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law."
- Ver. 33. "As it is written, Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."
- Homily XVII.
- Ver. X. 1
- Ver. 2. "For I bear them record," says he, "that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge."
- Ver. 3. "For they being ignorant," he says, "of God's righteousness."
- Ver. 4. "For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
- Ver. 5. "For Moses," he says, "describeth the righteousness which is of the Law."
- Ver. 6, 7, 8, 9. "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven (that is, to bring Christ down from above): or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that is, the word of faith which we preach. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
- Ver. 11-13. "For the Scripture saith," he proceeds, "Whosoever believeth on Him, shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek; for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved."
- Homily XVIII.
- Ver. X. 14, 15
- Ver. 16, 17. "But they have not all obeyed the Gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (ib. liii. 1.)
- Ver. 18. "But I say, Have they not heard?"
- Ver. 19. "But I say, Did not Israel know?"
- Ver. 20. "But Esaias is very bold, and saith."
- Ver. 21. "But unto Israel He saith, All the day long have I stretched forth My hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." (Is. lxv. 2.)
- Chap. xi. ver. 1. "I say then, Hath God cast away His people whom He foreknew? God forbid."
- Ver. 2. "He hath not cast off His people, whom He foreknew."
- Ver. 2-5. "Wot ye not," he says, "what the Scripture saith of Elias? how he (so most; mss. Sav. who) maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, and digged down Thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace."
- Ver. 6. "And if by grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace: but if it be of works, then is it no more grace, otherwise work is no more work."
- Homily XIX.
- Ver. XI. 7
- Ver. 8. "According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber." (Is. xxix. 10.)
- Ver. 9. "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block." (Ps. lxix. 22, 23.)
- Ver. 10. "Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow Thou down their back alway."
- Ver. 11. "I say then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid."
- Ver. 12. "Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness?"
- Ver. 13, 14. "For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office; if by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them."
- Ver. 15. "For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?"
- Ver. 16. "For if the first-fruits be holy, the lump also is holy; and if the root be holy, so are the branches;"
- Ver. 17. "And if some of the branches be broken off."
- Ver. 18. "Boast not against the branches."
- Ver. 19. "Thou wilt say then," he goes on, "The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."
- Ver. 20. "Well," he praises what they said, then he alarms them again by saying, "Because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou art grafted in by faith."
- Ver. 21. "For if God spared not the natural branches,"
- Ver. 22. "Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off."
- Ver. 23. "And they also, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in."
- Ver. 24. "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree."
- Ver. 25. "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise your own conceits."
- Ver. 26. "There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." (Is. lix. 20.)
- Ver. 27. "For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins."
- Ver. 29. "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."
- Ver. 28. "As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes."
- Ver. 30-32. "For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief; even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they may also obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all."
- Ver. 33. "Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments!"
- Ver. 34, 35. "For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?"
- Homily XX.
- Ver. XII. 1
- Ver. 2. "And be not fashioned after this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."
- Ver. 3. "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
- Homily XXI.
- Ver. XII. 4, 5
- Ver. 6. "Having then gifts differing according to the grace of God that is given unto us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith."
- Ver. 7. "Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering."
- Ver. 8. "Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation."
- Ver. 9. For, "Let love be without dissimulation," he says,
- Ver. 10. "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love."
- Ver. 11. "Not backward in zeal."
- Ver. 12. "Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer."
- Ver. 13. "Sharing with the necessity (chreiais, al. mneiais, memories) of the saints."
- Homily XXII.
- Ver. XII. 14
- Ver. 15. "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."
- Ver. 16. "Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate."
- Ver. 17. "Recompense to no man evil for evil."
- Ver. 18. "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."
- Ver. 19. "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath. For it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
- Ver. 20, 21. "If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
- Homily XXIII.
- Ver. XIII. 1
- Ver. 3. "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."
- Ver. 4. "For he is the minister of God to thee for good."
- Ver. 5. "Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath but also for conscience sake."
- Ver. 6. "For, for this cause pay ye tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually on this very thing."
- Ver. 7, 8. "Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe (or ye owe) no man anything, but to love one another."
- Ver. 9. "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, and any other commandment, is briefly comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
- Ver. 10. "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law."
- Homily XXIV.
- Homily XXV.
- Ver. XIV. 1, 2
- Ver. 3. "Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not."
- Ver. 4. "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant?"
- Ver. 5. "One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike."
- Ver. 6. "He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it." And, "He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks."
- Ver. 7, 8.
- Ver. 9. "For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living."
- Ver. 10. "But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother?"
- Ver. 11, 12. "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."
- Ver. 13. "Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way."
- Homily XXVI.
- Ver. XIV. 14
- Ver. 15. "But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably."
- Ver. 16, 17. "Let not then your good be evil spoken of. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink."
- Ver. 18. "For he that in these things serveth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men."
- Ver. 19. "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify one another."
- Ver. 20. "For meat destroy not the work of God."
- Ver. 21. "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."
- Ver. 22. "Hast thou faith? have it to thyself."
- Ver. 23. "And he that doubteth is condemned if he eat."
- Homily XXVII.
- Ver. XIV. 25-27
- Chap. xv. ver. 1. "We then that are strong, ought"--it is "we ought," not "we are so kind as to." What is it we ought to do?--"to bear the infirmities of the weak."
- Ver. 2. "Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification."
- Ver. 3. "For even Christ pleased not Himself."
- Ver. 4. "For whatsoever things were written aforetime," he says, "were written for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope."
- Ver. 5. "Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one towards another, according to Christ Jesus."
- Ver. 6. "That ye may with one mind," he says, "and one mouth, glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
- Ver. 7. "Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God."
- Homily XXVIII.
- Ver. XV. 8
- Ver. 9. "And that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy."
- Ver. 10-12. "And, rejoice, ye Gentiles, with His people. And, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles" (Deut. xxxii. 43); "and let all people laud Him." (Ps. cxvii. 1.) "And, There shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles trust." (Is. xi. 1, 10.)
- Ver. 13. "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
- Homily XXIX.
- Ver. XV. 14
- Ver. 15. "Nevertheless, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort."
- Ver. 16. "That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering (hierourghounta) the Gospel of God."
- Ver. 17. "I have therefore whereof I may glory, through Jesus Christ, in those things which pertain to God."
- Ver. 18. "For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make Gentiles obedient by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God."
- Ver. 20. "Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named."
- Ver. 21. "As it is written, To whom He was not spoken of, they shall see, and they that have not heard shall understand." (Is. iii. 15 [LXX].)
- Ver. 22. "For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you."
- Ver. 23. "But now having no more place in these parts."
- Ver. 24. "Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I trust to see you in my journey; and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company,"
- Homily XXX.
- Ver. XV. 25-27
- Ver. 28. "When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed unto them this fruit."
- Ver. 29. "And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ."
- Ver. 30. "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit."
- Ver. 31. "That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea."
- Ver. 32. "That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God."
- Ver. 33.
- Chap. xvi. ver. 1. "I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a deaconess (A.V. servant) of the church which is at Cenchrea."
- Ver. 2. "That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints." (Gr. "the saints.")
- Ver. 3. "Greet," he says, "Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus."
- Ver. 4. "Who for my life have laid down their own necks."
- Ver. 5. "Likewise greet the Church that is in their house."
- Homily XXXI.
- Ver. XVI. 5
- Ver. 6. "Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us."
- Ver. 7. "Salute Andronicus and Junia my kinsmen."
- Ver. 8. "Greet Amplias my beloved."
- Ver. 9. "Salute Urbane, my helper in the Lord."
- Ver. 10. "Salute Apelles, approved in Christ."
- Ver. 11. "Salute Herodion my kinsman; greet them which be of the household of Narcissus;"
- Ver. 12. "Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord."
- Ver. 12. "Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine."
- Ver. 14. "Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them."
- Ver. 15. "Salute Philologus, and Julius, and Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them;"
- Ver. 16. "Salute one another with an holy kiss."
- Homily XXXII.
- Ver. XVI. 17, 18
- Ver. 19. "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men."
- Ver. 20. "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly."
- Ver. 21. "Timotheus my work-fellow saluteth you."
- Ver. 22. "I Tertius, who wrote this Epistle, salute you."
- Ver. 23. "Gaius mine host (xenos), and of the whole Church, saluteth you."
- Ver. 24. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
- Homily I.