Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Romans 4:14

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 405, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians. (HTML)

Book III. (HTML)

The New Testament is More Ancient Than the Old; But It Was Subsequently Revealed. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2716 (In-Text, Margin)

... it to Abraham by promise,” as if it might be said to him, “Why then was the law made afterwards? “he added and said, “What then is the law?” To which interrogation he immediately replied, “It was added because of transgression, until the seed should come to which the promise was made.” This he says again, thus: “For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect: because the law worketh wrath: for where there is no law, there is no transgression.”[Romans 4:14] What he says in the former testimony: “For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise,” this he says in the latter: “For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void; and the promise ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 421, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians. (HTML)

Book IV (HTML)

Of the Praise of the Law. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2795 (In-Text, Margin)

... transgression, that so that might be conferred upon man which it could not itself confer. For to those words of theirs in which they say “that the law was able to confer eternal life on the prophets and patriarchs, and all saints who kept its commandments,” the apostle replies, “If righteousness be by the law, then has Christ died in vain.” “If the inheritance be by the law, then is it no more of promise.” “If they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect.”[Romans 4:14] “But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, The just by faith liveth.” “But the law is not of faith: but The man that doeth them shall live in them.” Which testimony, quoted by the apostle from the law, is ...