Romans 1:8 (WEB)
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Fathers and councils · 10
Tertullian
“When writing to the Romans, he gives thanks to God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…discipline, since the apostle would not have published such praise concerning us, when he said “that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world” unless already from thence that vigour had borrowed the roots of faith from those times; from which praise and glory it is a very great crime to have become…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“She is moreover specially adorned by her faith, in due testimony whereof the divine Apostle exclaims “your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8
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Jerome
“…sealed fountain” and “the garden inclosed,” I think it my duty to consult the chair of Peter, and to turn to a church whose faith has been praised by Paul.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8: I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Read the whole comment“Still I would assure you that nothing is more my aim than to maintain the rights of Christ, to keep to the lines laid down by the fathers, and always to remember the faith of Rome; that faith which is praised by the lips of an apostle, and of which the Alexandrian church boasts to be a sharer.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
Read the whole comment“Whosoever you are who are thus preaching new doctrines, I beseech you, spare the ears of the Romans, spare the faith of a church which an apostle has praised.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
Read the whole comment“Conscious that the faith of Rome—once praised by an apostle—was now in danger, and that this new heresy was drawing to itself not only priests and monks but also many of the laity besides imposing on the bishop who…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
Read the whole comment“In his days a terrible storm of heresy came from the East and strove first to corrupt and then to undermine that simple faith which an apostle has praised.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
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Leo the Great
“But her chief decoration is her Faith, to which the Divine Apostle is a sure witness when he exclaims “your faith is proclaimed in all the world;” and if immediately after receiving the seeds of the saving Gospel she bore such a weight of wondrous fruit, what words are sufficient to express the piety…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
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Basil the Great
“When, then, the apostle “thanks God through Jesus Christ,” and again says that “through Him” we have “received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations,” or “through Him have access unto this…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 8.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Letters Letter 63.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
Cited together in Letters Letter 63.
Cited together in Letters Letter 63.
Cited together in Letters Letter 63.
Cited together in Letters Letter 63.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.
Cited together in Letters Letter 113.