Irenaeus — Commentary on Scripture

Romans 10:4

How is Christ the end of the law if he is not also the cause of it? For he who has brought in the end also created the beginning.

AGAINST HERESIES 4.12.3

Romans 10:6

Impossible that he could attain to salvation who had fallen under the power of sin, the Son effected both these things, being the Word of God, descending from the Father, becoming incarnate, stooping low, even to death, and consummating the arranged plan of our salvation, upon whom

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Romans 10:8

); and "the word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart"

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Romans 10:9

Then he continues, "If thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved."

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Romans 10:15

And again, when Paul says, "How beautiful are the feet of those bringing glad tidings of good things, and preaching the Gospel of peace"

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Romans 11:16

And that the Saviour received first-fruits of those whom He was to save, Paul declared when he said, "And if the first-fruits be holy, the lump is also holy"

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Romans 11:17

If the wild olive takes kindly to the graft … it becomes a fruit bearing olive.… So likewise men shall be spiritual if they progress by faith to better things and receive the Spirit of God and bring forth the fruit.

AGAINST HERESIES 5.10.1

Romans 11:17

This truth, therefore, [he declares], in order that we may not reject the engrafting of the Spirit while pampering the flesh. "But thou, being a wild olive-tree," he says, "hast been grafted into the good olive-tree, and been made a partaker of the fatness of the olive-tree." As, therefore, when the wild olive has been engrafted, if it remain in its former condition, viz., a wild olive, it is "cut off, and cast into the fire;" but if it takes kindly to the graft, and is changed into the good olive-tree, it becomes a fruit-bearing olive, planted, as it were, in a king's park: so likewise men, if they do truly progress by faith towards better things, and receive the Spirit of God, and bring forth the fruit thereof, shall be spiritual, as being planted in the paradise of God.

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Romans 11:21

We ought not, therefore, as that presbyter remarks, to be puffed up, nor be severe upon those of old time, but ought ourselves to fear, lest perchance, after we have come to the knowledge of Christ, if we do things displeasing to God, we obtain no further forgiveness of sins, but be shut out from His kingdom. And therefore it was that Paul said, "For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee, who, when thou wert a wild olive tree, wert grafted into the fatness of the olive tree, and wert made a partaker of its fatness."

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Romans 11:26

And Paul likewise declares, "And so all Israel shall be saved; "

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Romans 11:32

T to the disobedience of men; and set forth why it is that one and the same God has made some things temporal and some eternal, some heavenly and others earthly; and understand for what reason God, though invisible, manifested Himself to the prophets not under one form, but differently to different individuals; and show why it was that more covenants than one were given to mankind; and teach what was the special character of each of these covenants; and search out for what reason "God.
And therefore Paul declares, "For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that He may have mercy upon all; "

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Romans 11:33

For in reference to these points, and others of a like nature, the apostle exclaims: "Oh! the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!"

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Romans 11:34

For no other being had the power of revealing to us the things of the Father, except His own proper Word. For what other person "knew the mind of the Lord "or who else "has become His counsellor? "

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Romans 11:36

They moreover affirm that the Saviour is shown to be derived from all the Aeons, and to be in Himself everything by the following passage: "Every male that openeth the womb." For He, being everything, opened the womb of the enthymesis of the suffering Aeon, when it had been expelled from the Pleroma. This they also style the second Ogdoad, of which we shall speak presently. And they state that it was clearly on this account that Paul said, "And He Himself is all things;" and again, "All things are to Him, and of Him are all things;" and further, "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead;" and yet again, "All things are gathered together by God in Christ."

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Romans 12:1

Then again, Paul exhorts us "to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

Romans 12:3

For this cause also the apostle says, "Be not wise beyond what it is fitting to be wise, but be wise prudently"

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Romans 12:16

As also the apostle taught, saying, "Minding not high things, but consenting to things of low estate; "

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Romans 13:1

For this cause pay ye tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.".
Paul the apostle also says upon this same subject: "Be ye subject to all the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: now those which are have been ordained of God."

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Romans 13:4

And again, in reference to them he says, "For he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, the avenger for wrath to him who does evil."

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Romans 13:6

Now, that he spake these words, not in regard to angelical powers, nor of invisible rulers-as some venture to expound the passage-but of those of actual human authorities,

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