Romans 2:23 Douay-Rheims

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

"Thou that makest a boast in the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God?" There are two accusations which he makes, or rather three. Both that they dishonor, and dishonor that whereby they were honored; and that they dishonor Him that honored them, which was the utmost extreme of unfeelingness. And then, not to seem to be accusing them of his own mind, he brings in the Prophet as their accuser, here briefly and concisely as it were in a summary, but afterwards more in detail, and here Isaiah, and after that David, when he had shown the grounds of reproof to be more than one. For to show, he means, that it is not I who speak these things to your reproach, hear what Isaiah saith.

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A.D. 407 · on Rom 2:23 (Homily on Romans 6)

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