Commentary on Romans 1
Regarding Romans 1:2, being set apart and dedicated to the gospel, just as the law says in a distinction and a separation, that which is separated from the sacrifices to God and to the priests. Regarding Romans 1:3-4, he became a son in the flesh, sharing our human nature, and through the Spirit and power, the Son is revealed as God, rising from the dead, so that we too might become children of God, receiving adoption and the redemption of our bodies, as the apostle himself said. Regarding Romans 1:5-7, so that he might show that even the Romans, being of the Gentiles among all those inhabiting the inhabited world, justly receive the proclamation of the apostleship.
Regarding Romans 1:8, they call God, those who approach him uniquely and above all others, the prophets of old, but now the apostles; this shows that there is no thanking God without Christ. He rejoices, using an angelic disposition, for the holding fast of the faith of Christ in Rome; for joy occurs in heaven also over one sinner after he thinks repentance, and he rejoices with his co-apostle Peter, having been so strong through grace. Regarding Romans 1:11-12, he teaches indeed, lighting up those not yet knowing, but he exhorts those already enlightened, gladdening them with the word of wisdom, as he himself says, dividing: whether the teacher, in teaching, or the one exhorting, in exhortation. And he says that he himself will be exhorted together with the Romans, sharing in their exhortation through love, while at the same time being not even himself above the need for the benefit of the word; for the word is an exhortation even to the speaker. Through this, he instructs the teachers not to think highly of themselves if they should teach, but to know that they do not teach their own things even if they teach, and to be persuaded that they do not only benefit but are also benefited; for the progress of the gospel and the support of those preaching.
Regarding Romans 1:13, the fruit of those having believed the word is the benefit of those hearing; and the Lord says that the apostles have been appointed to make much fruit. Indeed, few men are a church that has borne all fruit.
Regarding Romans 1:16-17, even if in the greatest of cities, he says, it is necessary to be mocked by the foolish while preaching the saving cross, I will not shrink back; for if the Son of God bore the shame of the cross instead of us, how is it not incongruous for us to be shamed by the Lord's passion for our sake? And instead of that which is by works not [...]
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Fragmenta in epistulam ad Romanos Rom 1,2 Κεχωρισμένος καὶ ἀφιερωμένος εἰς τὸν εὐαγγελισμόν, ὡς ὁ νόμος ἀφόρισμα καὶ ἀφαίρεμα λέγει τὸ χωριζόμενον ἀπὸ τῶν θυμάτων θεῷ καὶ ἱερεῦσιν. ® Rom 1,3 4 Γενόμενος τοίνυν κατὰ σάρκα ἐν ὁμοιώματι τῆς ἡμετέρας γενέσεως υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου, κατὰ τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὴν δύναμιν υἱὸς ἀνα δείκνυται θεοῦ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ γενέσει τῇ ἐκ νεκρῶν, πρὸς τὸ καὶ ἡμᾶς ὁμοιουμένους αὐτῷ υἱοὺς γενέσθαι θεοῦ, τὴν υἱοθεσίαν κομισαμένους ἐν τῇ ἀπολυτρώσει τοῦ σώματος, ὡς ® αὐτὸς ὁ ἀπόστολος ἔφη. Ro+m 1,5 7 Ἵνα δὲ δείξῃ, ὅτι καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι, τῶν ἐθνῶν ὄντες πάντων τῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην κατοικούντων, δικαίως αὐτοῦ δέχονται τῆς ἀποστολῆς τὸ κήρυγμα. Rom 1,8 Θεὸν καλοῦσιν οἱ ἐξαιρέτως καὶ ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἄλλους προσήκοντες αὐτῷ, πάλαι μὲν οἱ προφῆται, νῦν δὲ οἱ ἀπόστολοι· δηλοῖ δὲ ὅτι οὐκ ἔνι εὐχαριστῆσαι θεῷ ἄνευ Χριστοῦ. χαίρει δὲ ἀγγελικῇ διαθέσει χρώμενος ἐπὶ τὸ κεκρατηκέναι τὴν Χριστοῦ πίστιν ἐν Ῥώμῃ· χαρὰ γὰρ ἐν οὐρανῷ γίνεται καὶ ἐπὶ ἑνὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ μετα 58 νοοῦντι, καὶ συγχαίρει τῷ συναποστόλῳ αὐτοῦ Πέτρῳ τοσοῦτον ἰσχύσαντι διὰ τῆς χάριτος. ® Rom 1,11 12 ∆ιδάσκει μὲν ὁ τοὺς μήπω γινώσκοντας φωτίζων, παρακαλεῖ δὲ ὁ τοὺς ἤδη πεφωτισμένους εὐφραίνων τῷ τῆς σοφίας λόγῳ, ὡς αὐτὸς διαιρῶν φησιν· εἴτε ὁ διδάσκων, ἐν τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ, εἴτε ὁ παρακαλῶν, ἐν τῇ παρακλήσει. παρακαλουμένων δὲ Ῥωμαίων καὶ αὐτός φησι συμπαρακλη θήσεσθαι κοινωνῶν τῆς ἐκείνων παρακλήσεως διὰ τὴν ἀγάπην, ἅμα δὲ ὡς οὐδὲ αὐτὸς ὢν ὑπεράνω τοῦ χρῄζειν τῆς ἐκ λόγου ὠφελείας· παράκλησις γὰρ ὁ λόγος καὶ τῷ λέγοντι. ∆ιὰ δὲ τούτου παιδεύει τοὺς διδασκάλους μὴ μέγα προνεῖν εἰ διδάσκοιεν, ἀλλ' εἰδέναι ὅτι οὐ τὰ ἑαυτῶν διδόασι κἂν διδάσκωσι, καὶ πεπεῖσθαι ὅτι οὐκ ὠφελοῦσι μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὠφελοῦνται· ἡ γὰρ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου προκοπὴ καὶ τῶν κηρυττόντων στηριγμός. Rom 1,13 Καρπὸς δὲ τῶν πεπιστευμένων τὸν λόγον ἡ τῶν ἀκουόντων ὠφέλεια· καὶ ὁ κύριός φησι τεθεικέναι τοὺς ἀποστόλους εἰς τὸ καρπὸν πολὺν ποιεῖν. ὀλίγοι γοῦν ἄνδρες τὴν πᾶσαν ἐκαρπο φόρησαν ἐκκλησίαν. ® Rom 1,16 17 Εἰ καὶ ἐν τῇ μεγίστῃ τοίνυν τῶν πόλεων, φησί, χλευάζεσθαι δεῖ παρὰ τοῖς ἀνοήτοις κηρύττοντα τὸν σωτήριον σταυρόν, οὐ παραιτήσομαι· εἰ γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν αἰσχύνην ἀνθ' ἡμῶν ἐβάστασε τὴν τοῦ σταυροῦ, πῶς οὐκ ἄτοπον ἡμᾶς αἰσχύνεσθαι τὸ τοῦ κυρίου δι' ἡμᾶς πάθος; Καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς δι' ἔργων οὐκ
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Apollinaris of Laodicea on Romans (catena fragments).
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