Galatians 2:19 (WEB)
For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
Fathers and councils · 7
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“…under the law, he trode under foot for a while the strict view which he had expressed: “For I through the law am dead unto the law that I may live unto God;” and was driven to shave his head, and be purified according to the law and pay his vows after the Mosaic rites in the Temple.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 19.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“The divine writer recognises Christ as the foundation, and glories in this title, as when he says, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ liveth in me.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 19
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Ambrose of Milan
“He has not heard what was read to-day: “That a man is not justified by the works of the law,” or “I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live unto God,” that is, by the spiritual law he is dead to the carnal interpretation of the law.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the simulation of Peter and Barnabas is not only recorded, but also reproved and corrected.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 12–21
Read the whole comment“Let the reader but call to mind that cornerstone and those two walls of partition, the one of the Jews, the other of the Gentiles, and he will recognize them, the one under the term sons of Judah, the other as sons of Israel, supporting themselves by one and the same headship, and ascending from the earth.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 14–20.
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Tertullian
“For he says that “we are dead to the law.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 4, also Gal. ii. 19. This (although a quotation) is here a Marcionite argument; but there is no need to suppose, with Pamelius, that Marcion tampers…
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quare tune quidem in came vivebam camaliter: “quod autem nunc vivo in carne, in fide vivo Filii Dei.”—“In viam gentium ne abieritis, et ne ingrediamini in urbem Samaritanorum,” a contraria vitæ institutione nos dehortans dicit Dominus; quoniam “Iniquorum…” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 19, 20.
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