Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Romans 4:19

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 486, footnote 9 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace. (HTML)

God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3366 (In-Text, Margin)

It is He Himself, therefore, that makes those men good, to do good works. For He did not promise them to Abraham because He foreknew that of themselves they would be good. For if this were the case, what He promised was not His, but theirs. But it was not thus that Abraham believed, but “he was not weak in faith, giving glory to God;” and “most fully believing that what He has promised He is able also to perform.”[Romans 4:19] He does not say, “What He foreknew, He is able to promise;” nor “What He foretold, He is able to manifest;” nor “What He promised, He is able to foreknow:” but “What He promised, He is able also to do.” It is He, therefore, who makes them to persevere in good, who makes them good. But they ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 30, footnote 10 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril. (HTML)

Of Faith. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 777 (In-Text, Margin)

... except when he believed. Moreover, his every work was performed in faith. Through faith he left his parents; left country, and place, and home through faith. In like manner, therefore, as he was justified be thou justified also. In his body he was already dead in regard to offspring, and Sarah his wife was now old, and there was no hope left of having children. God promises the old man a child, and Abraham without being weakened in faith, though he considered his own body now as good as dead[Romans 4:19], heeded not the weakness of his body, but the power of Him who promised, because he counted Him faithful who had promised, and so beyond all expectation gained the child from bodies as it were already dead. And when, after he had gained his ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 20, footnote 10 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

De Spiritu Sancto. (HTML)

Objection that some were baptized unto Moses and believed in him, and an answer to it; with remarks upon types. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 985 (In-Text, Margin)

... then the descent into hell was not fearful, because Jonah had previously typified the death in three days and three nights. The same prejudicial comparison is made also in the case of baptism by all who judge of the reality by the shadow, and, comparing the typified with the type, attempt by means of Moses and the sea to disparage at once the whole dispensation of the Gospel. What remission of sins, what renewal of life, is there in the sea? What spiritual gift is there through Moses? What dying[Romans 4:19] of sins is there? Those men did not die with Christ; wherefore they were not raised with Him. They did not “bear the image of the heavenly;” they did “bear about in the body the dying of Jesus;” they did not “put off the old man;” they did not “put ...