Romans

"Affliction works endurance, and endurance proof, and proof hope, and hope does not put to shame.

for wherever it makes mention, it makes mention of the Godhead in the singular, as, "In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead," and elsewhere, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.

“So the Gentiles show the work, or the moral precepts of the law, written in their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.

As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God, says the divine Apostle.

Just as they reckon the very holy land to be properly the Jewish soil, which is rather to be interpreted of the flesh of the Lord, which thereafter is holy land in all who have put on Christ — truly holy by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, truly flowing with milk and honey by the sweetness of the hope itself, truly Jewish by familiarity with God.

Then he also follows out in what way he wishes you to be subject to the powers, bidding you render to whom tribute, tribute;

[22] 6) The Epistle of Saint Būlus to the Romans 1:

"Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings, and changed the glory of God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and served the creature rather than the Creator.

"O the depth of the riches and the wisdom of God!

"Of whom is Christ, who is," he says, "God over all, blessed for ever.

So Eye for eye and tooth for tooth has now grown old, since Let no one render evil for evil grew young.

"Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the precept holy and most good" — surely, "You shall not commit adultery.

or else we must cling to it only so far—as Plato says—as we win from it a service for philosophy, speaking somewhat like Paul, who exhorts that we should take no forethought for the body unto the occasion of lusts.

The reference in the misleading phrase ‘law of nature,’ is not to the memorable combination of words familiar to the Roman lawyers, but to the text of St.

But these are his invisible things, which, according to the apostle, from the foundation of the world are perceived through the things he made — not some Matter or other, but his own sensible attributes.

Who would not prefer the justice of the age, which the apostle too testifies is not armed with the sword in vain, which is religiously stern in the cause of man?

"—and as, to the Romans, saying that the nations do by nature the things that are of the law, he suggests both a natural law and a legal nature.

"For," he says, "the kingdom of God is not eating or drinking";

" Therefore, if he bids us be made dead to the law through the body of Christ, which is the Church, which consists in the spirit of newness, not in the letter of oldness, that is, of the law—taking you away from the law, which does not hold a wife to a deceased husband so as to keep her from being made another man's, he brings you back to the contrary condition: