Romans 3:7 (WEB)
For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Fathers and councils · 4
Augustine of Hippo
““But if the truth of God shall abound by my lie,” are we too to say, “Let us do evil that good may come?”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 7, 8
Read the whole comment“And that: “But if the truth of God hath abounded through my lie.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 7
Read the whole comment“And of man, too, the same apostle says in another place, “If the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie;”—“my lie,” he said, and “God’s truth.”” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 7.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Having expanded a thought of this kind at some length in his argument to the Romans, and having retorted upon himself with the counter-conclusion, which thence necessarily follows, that the sinner could no longer be justly blamed, if his…” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 3–9; iv. 1, 2; ix. 14–24; xi. 22–36.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 40.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 1.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 1.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 40.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 40.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
