Bede — Commentary on Scripture

Romans 5:5

The law was indeed given through Moses, and there it was determined by a heavenly rule what was to be done and what was to be avoided, but what it commanded was completed only by the grace of Christ. On the one hand, that law was able to point out sin, teaching justice and showing transgressors what they are charged with. On the other hand, the grace of Christ, poured out in the hearts of the faithful through the spirit of charity, brings it about that what the law commanded may be fulfilled.

Homilies on the Gospels 1.2

Romans 6:23

Eternal life is unjustly given for good merits. Rather, merit is first given freely by a benevolent Savior.

Homilies on the Gospels 1.2

Romans 8:3

He who came in the likeness of sinful flesh—not in sinful flesh—did not turn away from the remedy by which sinful flesh was ordinarily made clean.… Not from necessity but by way of example he submitted to the water of baptism, by which he wanted the people of the new law of grace to be washed from the stain of sin.

Homilies on the Gospels 1.11

Romans 8:15

Through the grace of baptism men can by receiving the Holy Spirit be changed from sons of the devil into sons of God.

Homilies on the Gospels 1.12

Romans 8:18

When we see such extraordinary heirs of the heavenly kingdom suffering so greatly during the time of their mortal exile, what remains for us to do under these circumstances … except to humble ourselves all the more in the sight of our benevolent Maker and Redeemer, as we become more clearly aware that we cannot follow them by imitating either their lives or their deaths?

Homilies on the Gospels 2.23

Romans 8:25

The certainty of our hope is prefigured by the egg. No offspring is as yet discernible in the egg, but the birth of the bird to come is hoped for. The faithful do not yet look upon the glory of the fatherland on high in which they believe at the present time, but they await its coming in hope.

Homilies on the Gospels 11.14

Romans 12:1

If we display our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, he will with heavenly condescension deign to see to it that we are rewarded with the same glory as those who have given their bodies up to death for the Lord’s sake.

Homilies on the Gospels 2.21