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Pelagius, on Rom 1:8
Pelagius · c. A.D. 354–420
Rom 1:8 · Douay-Rheims
“First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.”
On this verse:
“God is the God of all by nature but of some only by their own choice and response.… Paul calls God his in this second sense. He thanks God for them all, not just for the Jews, and praises them prudently, in order to encourage them to improve. Perhaps he did this because the whole world stood amazed that the idolatrous Romans had been converted … but probably he was just praising a faith which was now evident.”
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