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Romans: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators is unavailable, but you can change that!

This Church’s Bible volume brings together select lengthy excerpts from early Christian writings on Romans, Paul’s most comprehensive statement of Christian teaching. J. Patout Burns Jr. has judiciously chosen extended passages from such church fathers as Origen, Rufinus, Pelagius,Chrysostom, Ambrosiaster, Augustine, and Theodoret, enabling readers today to benefit from the church’s rich treasure...

mind can apprehend by its natural faculties alone. For while the human mind can investigate and understand all kinds of human righteousness, it cannot comprehend God’s righteousness and the judgments that derive from it, which Scripture has described as a great depth. Indeed, the righteousness of God and God’s judgments are so profound that the Apostle exclaims, How unsearchable are the judgments of God! (Rom 11:33).… The Apostle Paul says the same about Christ: He has become for us the wisdom of
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