Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Galatians 5:4
There are 6 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 3, page 351, footnote 7 (Image)
Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises
Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin (HTML)
On the Profit of Believing. (HTML)
Section 9 (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1716 (In-Text, Margin)
9. Here therefore these men too evil, while they essay to make void the Law, force us to approve these Scriptures. For they mark what is said, that they who are under the Law are in bondage, and they keep flying above the rest that last saying, “Ye are made empty of Christ, as many of you as are justified in the Law; ye have fallen from Grace.”[Galatians 5:4] We grant that all these things are true, and we say that the Law is not necessary, save for them unto whom bondage is yet profitable: and that the Law was on this account profitably enacted, in that men, who could not be recalled from sins by reason, needed to be restrained by such a Law, that is to say, by the threats and ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 137, footnote 9 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on Nature and Grace. (HTML)
For What Pelagius Thought that Christ is Necessary to Us. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1248 (In-Text, Margin)
... the foolishness of preaching whereby believers are healed. For if natural capacity, by help of free will, is in itself sufficient both for discovering how one ought to live, and also for leading a holy life, then “Christ died in vain,” and therefore also “the offence of the cross is ceased.” Why also may I not myself exclaim?—nay, I will exclaim, and chide them with a Christian’s sorrow,—“Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by nature; ye are fallen from grace;”[Galatians 5:4] for, “being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and wishing to establish your own righteousness, you have not submitted yourselves to the righteousness of God.” For even as “Christ is the end of the law,” so likewise is He the Saviour of man’s ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 454, footnote 2 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on Grace and Free Will. (HTML)
Abstract. (HTML)
Who May Be Said to Wish to Establish Their Own Righteousness. ‘God’s Righteousness,’ So Called, Which Man Has from God. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3088 (In-Text, Margin)
... grace. On which account he elsewhere says, “For sin shall not have dominion over you; because ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Not that the law is evil; but because they are under its power, whom it makes guilty by imposing commandments, not by aiding. It is by grace that any one is a doer of the law; and without this grace, he who is placed under the law will be only a hearer of the law. To such persons he addresses these words: “Ye who are justified by the law are fallen from grace.”[Galatians 5:4]
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 189, footnote 9 (Image)
Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms
Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)
Psalm L (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1802 (In-Text, Margin)
... not themselves, but blame themselves,—“So that he that glorieth, not in himself but in the Lord may glory,” —they acknowledge the cause of the coming of Christ, because for this end He came, that He might save sinners: for “Jesus Christ came,” he saith, “into this world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” Further, those Jews, boasting of their work, thus the same Apostle doth rebuke, in saying, that they to grace belonged not, who to their merits and their works thought that reward was owing.[Galatians 5:4] He therefore that knoweth himself to belong to grace, doth know what is Christ and what is Christ’s because he needeth grace. If grace it is called, gratis it is given; if gratis it is given, not any merits of time have preceded that ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 97, footnote 2 (Image)
Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes
An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall. (HTML)
Letter I (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 246 (In-Text, Margin)
... and worketh miracles among you:” and that they endured many contests for the sake of the faith, he also testified when he says: “Have ye suffered so many things in vain if it be indeed in vain.” Nevertheless after making so great an advance they committed sin sufficient to estrange them from Christ concerning which he declares saying: “Behold, I Paul tell you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing:” and again “ye who would be justified by the law are fallen away from grace:”[Galatians 5:4] and yet even after so great a lapse he welcomes them saying “my little children of whom I am in travail again until Christ be formed in you ” showing that after extreme perversion it is possible for Christ to be formed again in us: for He doth not ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 202, footnote 2 (Image)
Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans
A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (HTML)
Homily XXXII on Acts xv. 1. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 736 (In-Text, Margin)
... by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.” (Rom. iv. 2.) Do you perceive that all this is more a lesson for them than apology for the Gentiles? However, if he had spoken this without a plea for speaking, he would have been suspected: an occasion having offered, he lays hold of it, and speaks out fearlessly. See on all occasions how the designs of their foes are made to work with them. If those had not stirred the question, these things would not have been spoken, nor what follows.[Galatians 5:1-12]