Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Romans 9:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 99, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter. (HTML)

How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 888 (In-Text, Margin)

... flesh are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, “The elder shall serve the younger.”[Romans 9:7-12] This is the house of Israel, or rather the house of Judah, on account of Christ, who came of the tribe of Judah. This is the house of the children of promise,—not by reason of their own merits, but of the kindness of God. For God promises what He ...