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Romans 8:33Rom.8.33

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Qui accusera les élus de Dieu? C'est Dieu qui justifie!

KJV

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.

Patristic reading

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  • Anonymous

    Predestined or the Heresy of the Predestinators three books

    arge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns?" (Romans 8:33). These and similar things condemned the heretics for this reason. The priests, with reasonable words, either tried to call them back from the precipice or to show th…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    Law, does not justify. Objection 3: Further, justification is an effect proper to God, according to Rom. 8:33 : "God that justifieth." But the Old Law was from God just as the New Law. Therefore the New Law does not justify any more than the Old Law. On the contrary, The Apostle…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    sacramental effect is partly the work of man and not of God alone. On the contrary, It is written ( Rom. 8:33 ): "God that justifieth." Since, then, the inward effect of all the sacraments is justification, it seems that God alone works the interior sacramental effect. I answer t…

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