Leaders and Followers in Evil
They themselves sought many calculations. Regarding men, some are leaders toward evil, others are followers of evil, and both are wicked: the one who begins and the one who assists. But to do the thing of approving evil is a worse thing, according to the saying: if you saw a thief, you would run to him. For the one doing it, drinking in the passion, is defeated by the deed; but the one approving, being outside the passion yet using wickedness, runs to the evil. Therefore, not only do they do it, but they also approve, which is an accusation, as if they were both doing it.
Regarding the one discussing about God, he says that He will render according to his works, according to what is said in the Psalmist (Rom 2:1); and the Savior says this about Him, asserting: then He will render to each according to his practice (Rom 2:1). When therefore that which has been confessed to be God appears to be the Son, fellowship of nature is shown and true sonship. Well again, he says here, first to the Jew and second to the Greek (Rom 2:10): for those closer to the Master and to the honors are honored above the others and enjoy the honors above the others (Rom 2:10).
But not the perfect justification according to Christ (Rom 2:13); for concerning that, when he says: no flesh shall be justified by works of law (Rom 2:13). If even the hearing of the law is lacking, as he says, the nations (Rom 2:14), but if according to natural reason he fulfills the purposes of the law, he has the law in nature (Rom 2:14). For men alone sit as judges of visible things, but God makes judgment of the hidden things (Rom 2:16); for man, he says, will look at the face, but God at the heart (Rom 2:16); so that as Christ judges, God is to be the Judge.
Let God's word be confessed, he says, as firm and true everywhere (Rom 3:3), and let men be reproved as unstable and lying (Rom 3:3), so that God may overcome with benefits beyond the value of men, freely bestowing from himself. And when he judges against all flesh according to what is written indisputably, it is either that He has provided all things according to His own goodness and beyond the value of men, or the...
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αὐτοὶ ἐζήτησαν λογισμοὺς πολλούς. τῶν δὲ ἀνθρώπων οἱ μὲν ἀρχηγοὶ πρὸς τὸ κακόν, οἱ δὲ ἀκολουθηταὶ τοῦ κακοῦ, ἀμφότεροι δὲ πονηροί, καὶ ὁ κατάρξας καὶ ὁ συνδραμών. τοῦ δὲ ποιεῖν τὸ συνευδοκεῖν 60 χεῖρον τίθησι κατὰ τὸ λεγόμενον· εἰ ἐθεώρεις κλέπτην, συνέτρεχες αὐτῷ. ὁ μὲν γὰρ ποιῶν, μεθύων τῷ πάθει, ἡττᾶται τῆς πράξεως, ὁ δὲ συνευδοκῶν, ἐκτὸς ὢν τοῦ πάθους, πονηρίᾳ χρώμενος, συντρέχει τῷ κακῷ. τὸ οὖν οὐ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ συνευδοκοῦσιν, ἐπιτάσεώς ἐστιν, τούτους μέντοι αἰτιᾶται ὡς ἑκάτερα ποιοῦντας. Rom 2,1 Περὶ θεοῦ διαλεγόμενος, ἀποδώσει, φησί, κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, κατὰ τὸ εἰρημένον τῷ ψαλμωδῷ· ὁ δὲ σωτὴρ περὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦτο λέγει φάσκων· τότε ἀποδώσει ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὴν πρᾶξιν αὐτοῦ. ὅταν οὖν ὅπερ ὡμολόγηται εἶναι θεοῦ, τοῦτο υἱοῦ φαίνηται ὄν, κοινωνία τῆς φύσεως δείκνυται καὶ ἀληθὴς υἱότης. Rom 2,10 Καλῶς δὲ πάλιν ἐνταῦθα Ἰουδαίῳ τε πρῶτόν φησι, δευ τέρως δὲ Ἕλληνι· οἱ γὰρ πλησιέστερον τοῦ δεσπότου καὶ τῶν ἐπι τιμήσεων ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἄλλους τιμῶνται καὶ τῶν τιμῶν ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀπολαύουσιν. Rom 2,13 ∆ικαίωσιν δὲ οὐ τὴν τελείαν τὴν κατὰ Χριστόν· περὶ γὰρ ἐκείνης, ὅταν φησίν· ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται πᾶσα σάρξ. Rom 2,14 Εἰ καὶ τῆς ἀκροάσεως τῆς τοῦ νόμου, φησίν, ἀπολέλειπται τὰ ἔθνη, ἀλλ' ἐὰν κατὰ τὸν φυσικὸν νοῦν ἐπιτελῇ τὰ τοῦ νόμου βουλήματα, νόμον ἔχει τὴν φύσιν. Rom 2,16 Ἄνθρωποι γὰρ τῶν φανερῶν κάθηνται δικασταὶ μόνων, κρίσιν δὲ τῶν ἀποκεκρυμμένων ὡς θεὸς ποιεῖται· ἄνθρωπος γάρ, φησίν, ὄψεται εἰς πρόσωπον, ὁ δὲ θεὸς εἰς καρδίαν· ὥστε Χριστοῦ κρίνοντος θεὸν εἶναι τὸν κριτήν. 61 Rom 3,3 Ὁμολογείσθω, φησί, τὸ τοῦ θεοῦ βέβαιον καὶ ἀληθὲς πανταχοῦ, ἄνθρωποι δὲ ἀβέβαιοι καὶ ψευδεῖς ἐλεγχέσθωσαν, ἵνα νικᾷ ταῖς εὐεργεσίαις ὁ θεὸς ὑπὲρ τὴν ἀξίαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὰ παρ' ἑαυτοῦ χαριζόμενος. καὶ ἐπειδὰν κρίνηται πρὸς πᾶσαν σάρκα κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον ἀναμφισβήτητον, ** ἢ τὰ πάντα μὲν αὐτὸν παρεσχηκέναι κατὰ τὴν ἀγαθότητα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ὑπὲρ τὴν ἀνθρώπων ἀξίαν, τοὺς
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Apollinaris of Laodicea on Romans (catena fragments).
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