Romans 10:2 (WEB)
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Catechism · 1
“By giving Israel this principle they had led many Jews of Jesus' time to an extreme religious zeal.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 10:2.
Fathers and councils · 23
Jerome
“x. 2.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And if some persons, being ignorant and simple minded laymen, or, at all events, religious women—of whom we can truly say, “I allow that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge”—adopt the practice in honour of the martyrs, what harm is thereby done to you?” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“I must say with the apostle: “I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“So greatly did he abhor sensuality that, out of a zeal for God but yet one not according to knowledge, he castrated himself with a knife.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“However, a certain brother, who had “a zeal for God but not according to knowledge,” asked for a loan of the manuscript that he might read it; and, as he promised to return it without delay, Pammachius, thinking no harm could happen in so short a time, unsuspectingly consented.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, R.V.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History Martyrs of.10Martyrs of Palestine
“A certain Asclepius, supposed to be a bishop of the sect of Marcion, possessed as he thought with zeal for religion, but “not according to knowledge,” ended his life on one and the same funeral pyre.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.3Conference VIII
“…his cross and followeth after Me is not worthy of Me;” a passage which some most earnest monks, having “indeed a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge” understood literally, and so made themselves wooden crosses, and carried them about constantly on their shoulders, and so were the cause not of edification but…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment “For we have found that many in different countries, according to the fancy of their mind (having, indeed, as the Apostle says, “a zeal, for God but not according to knowledge”), have made for themselves different rules and arrangements in this matter.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
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Gregory the Great
“For indeed they are like unto those of whom it is written, I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge (Rom. x. 2).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“For some are noted by the Apostle, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, “being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own,” and not rejoicing in Thy light, and thus “not submitting themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“For “they have indeed a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,” etc. But the Psalmist, who understandeth the commandment of God above these his enemies, wishes to be found with the Apostle, “not having” his “own righteousness,…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“Speaking of the Jews, he saith, “they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”…Thou art perverse, because thou imputest what thou hast done ill to God, what well to thyself: thou wilt be right, when thou imputest what thou hast done ill to thyself, what well to God.…Behold, “in Thy righteousness hear me.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“Of these the Apostle Paul thus speaks; “I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment““They have a zeal of God: I hear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“…they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“…that is, they who “have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge;” because, “ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own,” they expel those who are exalted, not in their own righteousness, but in God’s, and have no cause to be ashamed at being expelled by men, since He is the glory…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
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John Chrysostom
“…what we have done in ignorance, and what in knowledge; “For I bear them record,” it is said, “that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge;”but yet this doth not suffice for an excuse for them.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
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Ambrose of Milan
““Some have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…not utterly depraved in disposition, who, if they have erred in regard to the truth, have erred from piety, who have zeal, though not according to knowledge, who will possibly be of the number of those not excessively condemned, and not beaten with many stripes, because it is not through vice or depravity that they…” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“For, to say the truth, he had zeal, but not according to knowledge.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“I will testify to the truth, though thy zeal be not according to knowledge.” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2.
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Tertullian
“For,” says he, “being ignorant of (the righteousness of) God, and going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God; for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2–4.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. x. 2, 3.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.9.