Theophylact of Ohrid, on Rom 5:6

“For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?”

“Having said that the love of God is poured out in us through the Spirit, Whom we have in ourselves as a gift from God, he further shows the greatness of this love from the fact that Christ died for us while we were weak, that is, sinners, and what is even worse, for the ungodly, although hardly anyone would die even for a righteous person. So then, this is a superabundance of love—to die for sinners and the ungodly. The phrase "in due time" means at the fitting and foreordained time, for the Lord died when the fitting time had come.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.