Commentarii in epistulam ad Romanos (I.1-XII.21) (in catenis) i 1 set apart for the gospel of God. Thirdly, one must see set apart for the gospel of

 he should object to these things, whether it is possible for things not to happen which God foreknew would happen in such a way we will say that it i

 to God, so that he might not be under the 'woe,' he was not silent but preached the gospel. And these things he saw who set him apart from his mother'

 commanded Joab to number the people the second is represented by he sent upon them the fierceness of anger, wrath and indignation, a sending of evil

 similar to that and have made themselves worthy of nothing gloomy but of that in which one ought to rejoice. Therefore the gospel is theirs, along wit

 of God is not characterized by entrusting books and letters, but by knowing the mind within them and the mysteries stored therein. For according to so

 His mouth is full of bitterness and deceit. Then what follows is this: Their feet are swift to shed blood and you will seek this in Isaiah, or in the

 secondly to the spiritual. But if the same law is received according to some, if it is manifested without law it is not testified by the law, but if i

 to be justified or through faith, just as from a man is better understood insofar as it is from a man, <or> through a woman insofar as it is th

 owed by God eternal life, but His gift for he says, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore, it should not be thought tha

 heirs of the law, faith is made void. In the list of the gifts given according to the proportion of faith, faith is also included for Paul says after

 kingdom of the heavens or kingdom of God. For these things, insofar as human nature is concerned, are beyond hope, but insofar as the power of God and

 belonging to God himself. (Of Origen) [For not only do we await immortal life, but also in the present life, having been reconciled to God, we glory,

 to death. As if someone for the sake of an example, being free, gives himself as a slave to the general of the enemies, so that by being with him he m

 to sin, just as apart from the law sin was dead, not coming from ever having been alive to the state of being dead. But the divine apostle also shows

 the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. The distinction is good, 'wages' being applied to sin, but 'g

 of the epistle it is possible to take from the [phrase] Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that A

 of truth by the spirit in the prophets and by the word of Christ in the apostles, is in many places confused also by its phrasing and is not spoken as

 on the earth by the Word, but before the law and the coming of the commandment it lived, being dead. <And here someone has rendered the natural law, s

 of the law of sin and of death, he speaks thus: for just as virtue by its own nature is strong, so also is evil and the things from it weak and powerl

 I will pray with the spirit, he says, and I will pray with the mind also. 49 viii 31, 32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us,

 in which one dies to sin, and in some way by our life which is hidden with Christ in God. And angels too wish to separate us from the love of God whic

"I will pray with the spirit," he says, "and I will pray with the mind also." 49 viii 31, 32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? As if summing up what was said before and referring these things to those, he says these things, not speaking contrary to what is evident. For he saw, according to "and you will be hated by all for my name's sake," that many are against us, and not only men but also those against whom is the struggle, principalities and powers and the world-rulers of this darkness and the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places, and Satan himself, who desires to take advantage of us; but not speaking contrary to what is evident, "if God is for us," each of those against us is contemptible and worthy of no account and able to do nothing; therefore do not be afraid nor be troubled; for if you were alone and not with God, resisting such ones, you might seem to have some reason to fear us; but now, with God being for us, to what will so many things against us be reckoned, if not to nothing? 50 viii 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? It seems to me that this refers to the devil, who is the accuser and will bring charges against the elect; for there is no one whom he will not accuse and against whom he will not bring a charge, except Jesus alone, who committed no sin, and for this reason said, "Now the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me." Therefore he is made contemptible when bringing charges even against God's elect; for with God justifying, who can condemn, even if the accuser brings forward the things that have been wiped away, for which they would have been condemned if they had not been wiped away? And he justified them, having blotted out their lawless deeds like a cloud and their sins like a mist, and having made those who formerly had sinned white as snow. 51 viii 37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. He conquers who, after a doubtful contest, among those contending for victory, overcomes the antagonist; but he is more than a conqueror who does not even in the beginning permit the opponent to stand against him. Such is Paul and those who have undertaken a similar preparation for temptations as he, trampling on that which afflicts and delighting in that which distresses and pursuing that which persecutes with endurance, and laughing at famine because of the heavenly food, and counting nakedness as nothing because of Christ whom they have put on, and trampling on peril as if not in peril, and being persuaded that the sword can do them no harm because of the living word of God. 52 viii 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, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. See if it is not reasonable that he placed the "I am persuaded that these certain things cannot separate us" in connection with the greater than human temptations, but the "what shall separate us," making light of the human ones, in connection with the lesser exercises of the human soul; and if we are more than conquerors over the former, human things, we will not overcome them without the cooperation and energy of one greater; therefore Paul well added "through him who loved us." But consider if death indeed struggles, wishing to separate from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, not the common one about which was said above "For your sake we are being killed all the day long," but the one which is the enemy of Christ and the last to be destroyed; for this one will wish to separate, say, Paul, but it will not be able, being destroyed by the Christ in him; and life, not the one opposite to this death—for things opposite to each other are not by nature disposed to wish one and the same thing—but that according to which one lives in sin and in its forms and in falsehood; and if also according to each form of sin there is a certain wicked life, you will understand through "your mercy is better than lives"; for this will wish to separate the one who is in the love of God in Christ Jesus, but it is not able, being destroyed in one way by death

προεύξομαί φησι τῷ πνεύματι, προεύ ξομαι δὲ καὶ τῷ νοΐ. 49 viii 31, 32 τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν πρὸς ταῦτα; εἰ ὁ θεὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, τίς καθ' ἡμῶν; ὅς γε τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ οὐκ ἐφείσατο, ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν παρέδωκεν αὐτόν, πῶς οὐχὶ καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ χαρίσεται ἡμῖν τὰ πάντα; ὥσπερ ἀνακ<ε>φαλαιούμενος τὰ προειρημένα καὶ ἐπ' ἐκεῖνα ἀναφέρων ταῦτά φησιν, οὐ παρὰ τὸ ἐναργὲς λέγων. ἑώρα γὰρ κατὰ τὸ καὶ ἔεθε μ(ι)ούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου ὡς πολλοὶ καθ' ἡμῶν, καὶ οὐ μόνον ἄνθρωποι ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πρὸς ἃ ἡ πάλη, ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἐξουίαι καὶ κομοκράτορε τοῦ κότου τούτου καὶ τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆ πονηρία ἐν τοῖ ἐπουρανίοι καὶ αὐτὸς ὅλος ὁ πλεονεκτεῖν ἡμᾶς θέλων Σατανᾶ· μὴ παρὰ τὸ ἐναργὲς δὲ λέγων τὸ εἰ ὁ θεὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, εὐτελὴς καὶ οὐδενὸς λόγου ἄξιός ἐστιν καὶ οὐδὲν δυνάμενος ἕκαστος τῶν καθ' ἡμῶν· μὴ οὖν εὐλαβεῖσθε μηδὲ ταράσσεσθε· εἰ μὲν γὰρ μόνοι ἦτε καὶ μὴ μετὰ θεοῦ πρὸς τοιούτους ἀνθιστάμενοι, κἂν εὔλογόν τι ἔχειν ἐδοκεῖτε φοβεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς· νυνὶ δὲ θεοῦ ὄντος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, εἰς τίνα μετρηθήσεται τὰ τοσαῦτα καθ' ἡμῶν ἢ εἰς οὐδέν; 50 viii 33 τίς ἐγκαλέσει κατὰ ἐκλεκτῶν θεοῦ; θεὸς ὁ δικαιῶν· τίς ὁ κατα κρίνων; δοκεῖ μοι τοῦτο ἀναφέρεσθαι ἐπὶ τὸν διάβολον ὄντα κατήγορον καὶ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν οἷς ἐγκαλέσει· οὐδεὶς γάρ ἐστιν οὗ ἐκεῖνος μὴ κατηγορήσει καὶ ᾧ οὐκ ἐγκαλέσει, εἰ μὴ μόνος Ἰησοῦς, ὃ ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ ἐποίηεν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο λέγων νῦν ἔρχεται ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ κόμου τούτου καὶ ἐν ἐμοὶ οὐκ ἔχει οὐδέν. διὰ τοῦτο οὖν ἐκεῖνος ἐξευτελίζεται ἐγκαλῶν καὶ κατὰ ἐκλεκτῶν θεοῦ· τοῦ γὰρ θεοῦ δικαιοῦντος τίς κατακρίναι δύναται, κἂν ὁ κατήγορος φέρει εἰς μέσον τὰ ἀπηλιμμένα ἐφ' οἷς κατεκρίθησαν εἰ μὴ ἀπήλιπτο; ἐδικαίωσεν δὲ αὐτοὺς ὡ νεφέλην ἀπαλείψα τὰ ἀνομία αὐτῶν καὶ ὡ γνόφον τὰ ἁμαρτία αὐτῶν καὶ λευκάνα τοὺς πρότερον ἡμαρτηκότας ὡ xiόνα. 51 viii 37 ἀλλ' ἐν τούτοις πᾶσιν ὑπερνικῶμεν διὰ τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς. νικᾷ μὲν ὁ μετὰ ἀμφηρίστου ἀγῶνος τοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἀγωνιζομένοις περὶ νίκης περιγενόμενος τοῦ ἀνταγωνιστοῦ· ὑπερνικᾷ δὲ ὁ μηδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπιτρέψας στῆναι πρὸς αὐτὸν τῷ ἐναντιουμένῳ. τοιοῦτος ὁ Παῦλος καὶ οἱ τὴν ὁμοίαν αὐτῷ παρασκευὴν πρὸς τοὺς πειρασμοὺς ἀνειληφότες, τὸ θλίβον καταπατοῦντες καὶ ἐντρυφῶντες τῷ τενοχωροῦντι καὶ τὸ διῶκον τῇ ὑπομονῇ διώκοντες, καὶ τὸν λιμὸν διὰ τὴν οὐράνιον τροφὴν γελῶντες, καὶ τὴν γυμνότητα ἐν οὐδενὶ τιθέμενοι δι' ὃν ἐνδέδυνται Χριστόν, καὶ τὸν κίνδυνον ὡς οὐ κινδυνεύοντες καταπατοῦντες, καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν διὰ τὸν ζῶντα τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον οὐδὲν χαλεπὸν ἐργάσασθαι αὐτοὺς πειθόμενοι. 52 viii 38, 39 πέπεισμαι γὰρ ὅτι οὔτε θάνατος οὔτε ζωὴ οὔτε ἄγγελοι οὔτε ἀρχαὶ οὔτε δυνάμεις οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα οὔτε μέλλοντα οὔτε ὕψωμα οὔτε βάθος οὔτε τις κτίσις ἑτέρα δυνήσεται ἡμᾶς χωρίσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν. ὅρα εἰ μὴ εὐλόγως τὸ μὲν πέπεισμαι ὅτι οὐ δύναται ἡμᾶς χωρίσαι τάδε τινὰ ἔταξεν ἐπὶ τῶν μειζόνων ἢ κατὰ ἄνθρωπον πειραμῶν, τὸ δὲ τί ἡμᾶ χωρίει ἐξευτελίζων τοὺς ἀνθρωπίνου ἐπὶ τῶν ἐλαττόνων γυμνασίων τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης ψυχῆς· καὶ ἐὰν ὑπερνικῶμεν δὲ τὰ πρότερα καὶ ἀνθρώπινα, οὐ χωρὶς συμπνοίας καὶ ἐνεργείας κρείττονος αὐτῶν περιεσόμεθα· διὸ καλῶς ὁ Παῦλος προσέθηκεν τὸ διὰ τοῦ ἀγαπήαντο ἡμᾶ. πρόσχες δὲ εἰ θάνατος μὲν παλαίει βουλόμενος χωρίσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ οὐχ ὁ κοινὸς περὶ οὗ ἀνωτέρω εἴρηται τὸ ἕνεκέν ου θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἀλλ' ὁ ἐχθρὸ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἔχατο καταργηθηόμενο· βουλήσεται μὲν γὰρ οὗτος χωρίσαι, φέρε εἰπεῖν, Παῦλον, οὐ δυνήσεται δὲ καταργούμενο ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ Χριστοῦ· ζωὴ δὲ οὐχ <ἡ> τῷ θανάτῳ τούτῳ ἐναντία, τὰ γὰρ ἀλλήλοις ἐναντία οὐ πέφυκεν ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν βούλεσθαι, ἀλλὰ ἡ καθ' ἣν ζῇ τις τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ καὶ τοῖς εἴδεσιν αὐτῆς καὶ τῷ ψεύδει· εἰ δὲ καὶ καθ' ἕκαστον εἶδος ἁμαρτία ἔστι τις φαύλῃ ζωῇ, ἐπιστήσεις διὰ τὸ κρεῖττον τὸ ἔλεό ου ὑπὲρ ζωά· αὕτη γὰρ βουλήσεται μὲν χωρίσαι τὸν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, οὐ δύναται δέ, καταργουμένη πῇ μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ θανάτου