Romans 7:24 (WEB)
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Fathers and councils · 38
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.50Book VII
“…“Our soul is bowed down to the dust;” and, “Thou hast brought me into the dust of death;” and similarly, “Who will deliver me from the body of this death?” also, “Who will change the body of our humiliation.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus VIII.54Book VIII
“…to this “body of humiliation;” and those who feel this humiliation exclaim, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again: “Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
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Jerome
“And elsewhere, having previously said, “I know that the law is spiritual,” and having discussed at some length the violence of the flesh which frequently drives us to do what we would not, he at last continues: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 14, 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“…imprisonment, scourging and other torments, he turns back to himself and cries “Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” do you fancy that you ought to lay aside apprehension?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Yet even then she was full of joy and repeated every moment the apostle’s words: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“If they are stained with guilt who have no bodily temptations, how much more must we be, enveloped as we are in frail flesh and forced to cry each one of us with the apostle: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“As one suffering violence he cries: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do;” and once more: “they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“For the apostle says:—“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“And the Apostle laments, saying, “Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Also, whosoever feels carnal delight rebel against his right will, will cry out, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” [Rom 7:24] And in thus mourning he will implore the aid of the counsoler, whence, “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“Therefore the flesh of Paul was a body of death, as he himself says: “Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“But the body of pain is like the body of that death, of which it is said: “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12Conference XX
“For which also the same man exclaims with a sigh “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 19, 24.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.10Conference XXIII
“Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.15Conference XXIII
“Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord”?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Who shall deliver him from the body of this death,” but Thy grace only, “through Jesus ‘Christ our Lord,’” whom Thou hast begotten co-eternal, and createdst in the beginning of Thy ways, in whom the Prince of this world found nothing worthy of death, yet killed he…” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment““O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death” but Thy grace only, through Jesus Christ our Lord?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 22–24. This difficilis et periculosus locus (Serm. cliv. 1) he interprets differently at different periods of his life. In this place, as elsewhere…
Read the whole comment“The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“And because it is He “Himself” that “will bring it to pass,” when thou shalt have “revealed thy ways unto Him;” hear what follows: “The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment““Unhappy man I, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Let us hear then this man crying out this.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”…“For I delight in the Law of God according to the inner man.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“He asked who it should be, and straightway it occurred to him, “The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“And when thou shalt be pressed by thine evil, thy heart will be brought low in labour, so that now with humbled heart thou mayest learn to cry out, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”…Freed, thou wilt confess the mercies of the Lord.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Are we then to despair?” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“For who will deliver the unhappy soul from the body of this death, unless the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord? of which grace we will discourse in its place, so far as He Himself enables us.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25
Read the whole comment“I thank God through Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“…warring against the law of my mind;” and to testify our grief with tearful voice, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23, 24.
Read the whole comment““Wretched man that I am!”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“The grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment“And then he concluded thus: “So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 23–25.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—What then do you say to be proper to the soul?” — editor's note: All through the argument there seems to be some confusion between the two senses of ψυχή as denoting the immortal and the animal part of man, and so between…
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Rom. 7:24.) and hence were the Apostles moved with anger at the request of the sons of Zebedee.” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Nunquid autem consentit cum divino Apostolo, qui dicit: “Infelix ego homo, quis me liberabit a corpore mortis hujus?” nisi forte eorum consensionem, qui trahuntur in vitium, “corpus morris” dicit tropice.” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. vii. 24, 25.
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Cross-references · 39
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.11.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Confessions VIII.5.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 7:28–29 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.54.
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.5.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.3.