Romans 8:15 (WEB)
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Catechism · 5
The Sacrament of Confirmation
From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace: - it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, "Abba!
The Moral Law
“…master is doing" to that of a friend of Christ - "For all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you" - or even to the status of son and heir.” — Catechism footnote: Jn 15:15; cf. Jas 1:25; 2:12; Gal 4:1-7. 21-31; Rom 8:15.
Grace and Justification
“Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 1:12-18; 17:3; Rom 8:14-17; 2 Pet 1:3-4.
The Father
“Such is the "plan of his loving kindness", conceived by the Father before the foundation of the world, in his beloved Son: "He destined us in love to be his sons" and "to be conformed to the image of his Son", through "the spirit of sonship".” — Catechism footnote: Eph 1:4-5, 9; Rom 8:15, 29.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“Besides the proper name of "Holy Spirit," which is most frequently used in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Epistles, we also find in St. Paul the titles: the Spirit of the promise, The Spirit of adoption,” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:15; Gal 4:6.
Fathers and councils · 34
Augustine of Hippo
“…by means of His pre-eminence, are born again into the grace of God through the adoption of sons, according to the truth commended to us by apostolic teaching.” — editor's note: Luke viii. 21; Rom. viii. 15–17; Gal. iv. 5; Eph. i. 5; Heb. ii. 11
Read the whole comment“For we are not reconciled unto Him except through that love in virtue of which we are also called sons: as we are no more “under fear, like servants,” because “love, when it is made perfect, casteth out fear;” and [as] “we have received the spirit of liberty, wherein we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15
Read the whole comment““For Himself is our peace, who hath made both one, that He might build two into Himself, making peace, and might unite together both in one Body unto God: in which Body we are sons of God, “crying, Abba Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“Since Abba is nothing else but Father, yet not without meaning the Apostle said, “in whom we cry, Abba, Father;” but because one wall indeed coming to the Corner Stone crieth Abba, but the other, from the other side crieth Father; viz., in that Corner Stone, “who is our Peace, who hath made both one.”…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…those unto whom He giveth the spirit of the fear of Him; not that fear of which the Apostle saith, “Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;” for “perfect love casteth out” this “fear,” but that fear which the Prophet calleth “the spirit of the fear of the Lord;” that fear which “is pure, and…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“For he says, “In whom we cry, Abba, Father;” and, in another passage, “God sent His Spirit into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle Paul also says, “For we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption of sons, wherein we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15
Read the whole comment“For these be the heirs, to whom is said, “Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15
Read the whole comment“The Apostle Paul, again, says, “The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant;” and mentions that we have received the Spirit of adoption, “whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15–23 and Gal. iv. 1–6.
Read the whole comment“If it is wisdom through which the peacemakers are blessed, inasmuch as they shall be called the children of God; let us pray that we may be freed from evil, for that very freedom will make us free, i.e. sons of God, so that we may cry in the spirit of adoption, “Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15 and Gal. iv. 6.
Read the whole comment“For He is the Spirit of the adoption of sons, “in whom we cry Abba, Father;” that we may be able to say to Him, “Forgive us our debts.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“But the fear which is not in love is of that kind of which Paul himself says, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“The fear that lies not in love, the apostle pointed to when he said, “For ye have not received the spirit of service again to fear.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
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Origen
“The words of Paul are as follow: “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“And of this the inspired Apostle is a witness, when he says, “Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“To those, no doubt, who have received the grace of the “adoption, by which we cry, Abba Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…have believed, ye shall rejoice with joy unspeakable;” neither do we receive another Holy Spirit, besides Him who is with us, and who cries, “Abba, Father;” and we shall make increase in the very same things [as now], and shall make progress, so that no longer through a glass, or by means of enigmas, but face to…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
Read the whole comment“For those to whom he was writing were not without flesh, but they were those who had received the Spirit of God, “by which we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…given by the whole Trinity is said to be the proper office of the Holy Spirit alone, for it is He, “The Spirit of adoption, in which we cry, Abba Father,” [Rom 8:15] so that to Him we may pray, “Forgive us our sins; And hereby we know:” speaks John, “that Christ abideth in us, by the Holy Spirit which He hath given…” — the author cites it
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“But of Christ’s people the Apostle says, “We have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father,” [Rom 8:15] and that not of our deservings, but of grace.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He is also called the Spirit of adoption, as Paul saith, For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” — editor's note: Ib. viii. 15.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.13Conference XI
“Those also who are inflamed with a perfect love of their heavenly Father, and whom the Divine adoption has already made sons instead of servants, he addresses in these words: “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 15.
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John Chrysostom
““For we,” he says, “have received not a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” ( Rom. viii. 15; 2 Tim. i. 7.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And this Paul has declared and said, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” ( Rom. viii. 15.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…when It saith, “Ye know not what Spirit ye are of” ( Luke ix. 55 ); and again, “For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage, but the Spirit of adoption” ( Rom. viii. 15 ); and the men of old possessed the Spirit themselves, but imparted It not to others, while the Apostles filled tens of thousands with It,) since…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption.” ( Rom. viii. 15.)” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with Him that we may be also glorified together;” and to the Galatians he writes “And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” — editor's note: Romans viii. 14–17
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For ye received not the Spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father; and again, For no man by the Spirit of God saith anathema to Jesus, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit; and he adds, Now there are…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 14, 15.
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Leo the Great
“…who stood by: that the harshness of the law might give way before the gentleness of grace, and “the spirit of adoption” might dispel the terrors of bondage.” — editor's note: S. Paul’s language (Rom. viii. 15) is in his mind.
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Gregory the Great
“And again it is written, Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear, but the spirit of adoption of sons, wherein we cry, Abba, Father (Rom. viii. 15).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
Chapter XIV.—The Divine Power Shown in Christ’s Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul’s Phrase. Likeness of Sinful Flesh. No Docetism in It. Resurrection of Our Real Bodies. A Wide Chasm Made in the Epistle by Marcion’s…
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Clement of Alexandria
“…subjungit dicens: “Non enim accepistis spiritum servitutis rursus in timorein, sed accepistis spiritum adoptionis filiorum, in quo clamamus, Abba Pater;” hoc est, ad hoc accepimus, ut cognoscamus eum, quem oramus, qui est vere Pater, qui rerum omnium solus est Pater, qui ad salutem erudit et castigat at pater,…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me his prisoner,” he writes to Timothy.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. i. 7, 8; Rom. viii. 15.
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Cross-references · 57
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Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §693.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.
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Cited together in Catechism §693 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.
Cited together in Catechism §257.
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Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:31–32 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §693.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:31–32 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 39.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.14.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 6:9 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:31–32 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:31–32 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1996 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 85 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 12:31–32 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus I.57.