Gennadius of Constantinople

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

53 passages across 3 books of the Bible · Who was this?

Commentary

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  1. Romans 12:3
    Paul said this in criticism of those brothers who were running after charismatic gifts. God did not give us his gift in order that we should hate each other or that spiritual things should become an excuse for warfare, but so that we should enjoy harmony and friendship and the common salvation of all. None of you has anything by right, but the one who is worthy of the greatest, as well as the one who is worthy of the least of the charismatic gifts, has been given it by God. Knowing this he ought to use it according to the measure of his faith.

    PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH

  2. Romans 12:6
    “In proportion to our faith” not only applies to prophecy but may be extended by analogy to all the gifts.

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  3. Romans 12:12
    God’s mercy does not abandon you in these circumstances, but you are constantly and everywhere helped by him in all things.

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  4. Romans 12:13
    Paul calls the believers “saints” because they have been called to be holy.

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  5. Romans 12:14
    Paul wants them to exhibit such brotherly love that those who want to persecute them will have no excuse for doing so.

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  6. Romans 12:18
    Paul says that he wants Christians to have the right spirit, even if others think differently.

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  7. Romans 13:7
    “Taxes” and “revenue” are the same thing.

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  8. Romans 13:11
    Every day the end comes closer, and we are already on the threshold of the resurrection.

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  9. Romans 14:1
    Who would be so inhumane as to lay aside any sympathy for the weak and trample on them, not even offering them the help they need in adversity? Paul makes this an absolute command and accompanies it with the teaching that the law and all the behavior it entailed has been abolished in Christ. Yet he was conscious that the ethnic heritage weighed more heavily on the Jew, who felt that he would be sinning against his brothers if he went against the law.

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  10. Romans 14:10
    Once again Paul takes up his earlier theme and by adding the word brother shows how inappropriate this kind of judging is.

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  11. Romans 14:15
    Look at how wonderfully Paul develops his argument. He starts off at the bottom, by referring to food. Then he goes on to call the person who is sinned against a “brother.” Then he calls what has been done to him “destruction.” Fourth, he says that this outrage has been committed against someone “for whom Christ died.” Fifth, he says that someone who does this causes godliness to be blasphemed, and sixth, that we have not come to faith in Christ in order to be able to enjoy this or that but in order to be able to share in righteousness, which means in sinlessness, peace and joy.

    PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH

  12. Romans 15:13
    By “the God of all hope” Paul means that God has blessed us with the hope of things to come.

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  13. Romans 15:20
    The explanation as to why Paul had not yet managed to visit the Romans seems to be that he believed that Peter had already come to them as their teacher, so he went to places where as yet no one had preached the gospel of Christ.

    PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH

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