Loading…

Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 1–5 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Origen of Alexandria’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans is the oldest extant commentary on Romans (ca. 246). This volume presents the first English translation of the commentary, covering his exegesis of Rom 1:1 to 6:11. One of his longest and most mature works, it is the only commentary of Origen available in a coherent form from beginning to end. The work was originally composed in Greek...

someone, deep down inside, not to move from his place? Or what about the laws concerning leprous diseases that break out on thread or on a wall or on a hide or the thousands of other laws?192 It is on account of these laws that the law is weak according to the letter, that is, according to the flesh. For that reason, the Apostle says, “For the law is spiritual.”193 Consequently he who understands that the law is spiritual serves God in the spirit. Whence also he says to others, “For if you live according
Page 80