Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Romans 4:1

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 214, footnote 20 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

Archelaus. (HTML)

The Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes. (HTML)

Chapter XL. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1887 (In-Text, Margin)

... possess the kingdom of God. He also maintained that Paul himself spoke in his own proper person when he said: “If I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.” Further, he averred that the same apostle made this statement most obviously on the subject of the resurrection of the flesh, when he also said that “he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh,” and that according to the letter the law has in it no advantage.[Romans 4:1] And again he adduced the statement, that “Abraham has glory, but not before God;” and that “by the law there comes only the knowledge of sin.” And many other things did he introduce, with the view of detracting from the honour of the law, on the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 13, page 424, footnote 4 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. (HTML)

Homilies on 1 Timothy. (HTML)

1 Timothy 1:18,19 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1152 (In-Text, Margin)

... reasonings. As the shipwrecked man is naked and destitute of all things, so is he that falls away from the faith without resource, he knows not where to stand or where to stay himself, nor has he the advantage of a good life so as to gain anything from that quarter. For when the head is disordered, what avails the rest of the body? and if faith without a good life is unavailing, much more is the converse true. If God despises His own for our sakes, much more ought we to despise our own for His sake.[Romans 4:1-2] For so it is, where any one falls away from the faith, he has no steadiness, he swims this way and that, till at last he is lost in the deep.