Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ephesians 1:8
There are 4 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 228, footnote 7 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin. (HTML)
On the Grace of Christ. (HTML)
Pelagius Says that Grace is Given According to Men’s Merits. The Beginning, However, of Merit is Faith; And This is a Gratuitous Gift, Not a Recompense for Our Merits. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1873 (In-Text, Margin)
... Now it is clear that he says grace is bestowed according to merit, whatever and of what kind soever the grace is which he means, but which he does not plainly declare. For when he speaks of those persons as deserving reward who make a good use of their free will, and as therefore meriting the Lord’s grace, he asserts in fact that a debt is paid to them. What, then, becomes of the apostle’s saying, “Being justified freely by His grace”? And what of his other statement too, “By grace are ye saved”?[Ephesians 1:8] —where, that he might prevent men’s supposing that it is by works, he expressly added, “ by faith. ” And yet further, lest it should be imagined that faith itself is to be attributed to men independently of the grace of God, the apostle says: ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 229, footnote 1 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin. (HTML)
On the Grace of Christ. (HTML)
Pelagius Says that Grace is Given According to Men’s Merits. The Beginning, However, of Merit is Faith; And This is a Gratuitous Gift, Not a Recompense for Our Merits. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1874 (In-Text, Margin)
... is which he means, but which he does not plainly declare. For when he speaks of those persons as deserving reward who make a good use of their free will, and as therefore meriting the Lord’s grace, he asserts in fact that a debt is paid to them. What, then, becomes of the apostle’s saying, “Being justified freely by His grace”? And what of his other statement too, “By grace are ye saved”? —where, that he might prevent men’s supposing that it is by works, he expressly added, “ by faith. ”[Ephesians 1:8] And yet further, lest it should be imagined that faith itself is to be attributed to men independently of the grace of God, the apostle says: “And that not of yourselves; for it is the gift of God.” It follows, therefore, that we receive, without ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 229, footnote 2 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin. (HTML)
On the Grace of Christ. (HTML)
Pelagius Says that Grace is Given According to Men’s Merits. The Beginning, However, of Merit is Faith; And This is a Gratuitous Gift, Not a Recompense for Our Merits. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1875 (In-Text, Margin)
... he asserts in fact that a debt is paid to them. What, then, becomes of the apostle’s saying, “Being justified freely by His grace”? And what of his other statement too, “By grace are ye saved”? —where, that he might prevent men’s supposing that it is by works, he expressly added, “ by faith. ” And yet further, lest it should be imagined that faith itself is to be attributed to men independently of the grace of God, the apostle says: “And that not of yourselves; for it is the gift of God.”[Ephesians 1:8] It follows, therefore, that we receive, without any merit of our own, that from which everything which, according to them, we obtain because of our merit, has its beginning—that is, faith itself. If, however, they insist on denying that this is ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 531, footnote 1 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints. (HTML)
A Treatise on the Gift of Perseverance. (HTML)
Why God Willed that He Should Be Asked for that Which He Might Give Without Prayer. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3591 (In-Text, Margin)
... have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace, which has abounded towards them in all wisdom and prudence; that He might show them the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Him, in the dispensation of the fulness of times to restore all things in Christ which are in heaven and which are in earth; in Him, in whom also we have obtained a lot, being predestinated according to His purpose who worketh all things.”[Ephesians 1:4-11] Against a trumpet of truth so clear as this, what man of sober and watchful faith can receive any human arguments?