Romans 8:32 (WEB)
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Catechism · 4
In the Old Testament
“Abraham's faith does not weaken (“God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering."), for he "considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead." and so the father of believers is conformed to the likeness of the Father who will not spare his own Son but wiLl deliver him up for us all.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:32.
The Battle of Prayer
“For St. Paul, this trust is bold, founded on the prayer of the Spirit in us and on the faithful love of the Father who has given us his only Son.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 10:12-13; 8:26-39.
Jesus Died Crucified
“Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all", so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son".” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:32; 5:10.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“God commits himself by his own solemn oath to giving his beloved Son and "the promised Holy Spirit . . . [who is] the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 1:13-14; cf. Gen 22:17-19; Lk 1:73; Jn 3:16; Rom 8:32; Gal 3:14.
Fathers and councils · 55
Origen
“…price, for whom Christ died; whom, although His Son, God who is love spared not, but gave Him up for us all, that with Him He might freely give us all things?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.43Book VIII
“The Father of Jesus is therefore a tender and loving Father, though “He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up” as His lamb “for us all,” that so “the Lamb of God,” by dying for all men, might “take away the sin of the world.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For thus he declares in one of his Epistles, “Who spared not His own Son,” distinguishing Him, by the addition of “own,” from those who are counted worthy of the adoption of sons by grace and not by nature.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“…the body, but the operation was of God; and even if some wrest to the support of the opposite doctrine the words of the Apostle, “God spared not His own Son,” and, “God sent His own Son,” and other similar phrases which seem to refer, in the matter of the Passion, to the Divine Nature, and not to the Humanity, we…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“When therefore he says, “He spared not His own Son,” he contrasts the true Son with the other sons, begotten, or exalted, or adopted (those, I mean, who were brought into being at His command), marking the specialty of nature by the addition of “own.”” — editor's note: Reading, as Gulonius seems to have done, and according to Oehler’s suggestion (which he does not himself follow), υἱοθετηθεῖσι for ἀθετήσασι. In the latter…
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Tertullian
“This verity the apostle also perceived, when he writes to this effect: “If the Father spared not His own Son.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“…is it of God and His ways of acting, who spared not His own Son for you, that He might be made a curse for us, because cursed is he that hangeth on a tree,—Him who was led as a sheep to be a sacrifice, and just as a lamb before its shearer, so opened He not His mouth; but gave His back to the scourges, nay, His…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32; Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“The apostle also knows what kind of God he has ascribed to us, when he writes: “If God spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us, how did He not with Him also give us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole commentChapter 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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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Rom. 8:32) But the Giver of this cup and the Drinker of it are the same; as the same Apostle saith, Christ loved us, and gave Himself for us.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“It is Christ Who died, yea, Who also rose again, Who is at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31–35.
Read the whole comment“If, then, we enquire His Name, it is “the Truth;” if we seek to know His natural rank and dignity, He is so truly the very Son of God, that He is indeed God’s own Son; as it is written, “Who spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for our sakes,” gave Him up, that is, so far as the flesh was concerned.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“But we are tenacious of our own; God gave His only Son for us, we refuse ours.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“The Father gave, Who “spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IX.34Conference IX
“And as it is said of the One: “Who spared not His own Son, but gave Him for all of us,” so it is written of the other: “He was offered because He Himself willed it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But that “in due time Christ died for the ungodly,” and that Thou sparedst not Thine only Son, but deliveredst Him up for us all, is not there.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“Who spared not His Only Son, but delivered Him up for us all.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 33, 31, 32.
Read the whole comment“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; how hath He not with Him also freely given us all things.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31, 32.
Read the whole comment“…all, unjust all, are to be condemned all: and nevertheless the Father His own proper Son hath not spared, but for the sake of us all He hath delivered Him up.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“It hath been said of the Father, “That His own Son spared not, but gave Him up for us all.”…By all means be it that Himself destroyed the Temple, Himself destroyed that said, “Power I have to lay down My Soul, and power I have again to take it: no one…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment““How hath He not also with Him given to us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“He then spared not Himself: because even the Father spared Him not, but delivered Him up for us all.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“Those are the testimonies, by which He deigneth to prove unto us how much He loveth us.…” — editor's note: Rom. v. 8, 9; John xiv. 6; Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment““How shall He not also with Him freely give us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31, 32.
Read the whole comment“In that bond thou hast My only-begotten Son promised, “Whom I spared not, but gave Him up for you all:” reckon this then among what is paid.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“In that He “sent His only Son” to die for us: so also the apostle Paul saith: “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how hath He not with Him also freely given us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“And with regard to God Himself, its object is that, even if it were an irksome task to love Him, it may now at least cease to be irksome for us to return His love, seeing that “He first loved us,” and “spared not His own only Son, but delivered Him up for us all.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32
Read the whole comment“…both the Son and the Holy Spirit also may be understood: not that He does not now love us, who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; but God loves us, such as we shall be, not such as we are, for such as they are whom He loves, such are they whom He keeps eternally; which shall then be, when…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32
Read the whole comment“For the Apostle Paul says both: “Who,” he says, “spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all;” while elsewhere he says of the Saviour Himself, “Who loved me, and delivered Himself for me.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32
Read the whole comment“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how has He not with Him also freely given us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31, 32
Read the whole comment“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; how has He not with Him also freely given us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31, 32
Read the whole comment“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; how has He not with Him also freely given us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28–32
Read the whole comment“We may see that the Passion of the Son is the work of the Father, since it is written, “Who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all;” and that the Passion of the Son was His own work also, “Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle himself saying, “He that spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; how hath He also not with Him given us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“In whose similitude but His of whom the apostle says, “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment““For when He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,” in that way, certainly, He has killed Him.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“Thus the apostle reasons concerning those who are predestined to that kingdom: “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also give us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“The glorification of the Son by the Father is understood by some to consist in this, that He spared Him not, but delivered Him up for us all.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“He that spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 31, 32.
Read the whole comment“…through the treason of Judas, taken and bound the Lord, who loved us, and gave Himself for us, and whom the Father spared not, but gave Him up for us all: that we may understand that there was no praise due to Judas for the usefulness of his treachery, but damnation for the willfulness of his wickedness: “They…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“‘He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all.’” — editor's note: Romans viii. 32
Read the whole comment““His true, peculiar, natural, and special Sonship was declared by Paul, who, speaking of God, says, that ‘He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us,’ who are not by nature His sons.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32
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John Chrysostom
““He who spared not His Own Son,” he says, “but delivered Him up for us all.” ( Rom. viii. 32.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And again in another place, “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” ( Rom. viii. 32.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But Paul indeed sets it forth, thus saying, “He that spared not His own Son, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“For the sum of His benefits is this, that “He spared not His own Son,”in order to save His alienated servants.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“For a soul is an object of such earnest care to God, that “He spared not His own Son.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And while he exhorted and advised them to remember the good things to come, and the loving-kindness of God towards us, ‘Who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,’ he persuaded many to embrace the solitary life.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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Basil the Great
“What by “delivered him up for us all”?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment“…great; then not the love of God, who gave His only begotten Son for our sins, would be great and extraordinary, because Abraham did not spare his own son; then even the passion of the Lord would not be glorious, because a sheep typified the offering instead of Isaac; then the descent into hell was not fearful,…” — editor's note: cf. Rom. viii. 32.
Read the whole comment““He that spared not His own Son,” it is said, “but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us.” — editor's note: Ib. 31, 32.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
“But it is not clearly expressed by whom He is to be delivered, for one says, that He is to be delivered up by Judas, another by the devil; but Paul says, that God the Father delivered Him up for us all; (Rom. 8:32.) but Judas, as he delivered Him up for money, did it traitorously, the Father for His mercies’ sake.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The Son of Man indeed was “delivered up” by God the Father according to the Apostle, [Rom 8:32] but different powers gave him up into the hands of men.” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“For the blessed Apostle says the Father “spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us all;” and again, he says, “For Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 32.
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