Romans 9:5 (WEB)
of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
Catechism · 2
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“By attributing to Jesus the divine title "Lord", the first confessions of the Church's faith affirm from the beginning that the power, honour and glory due to God the Father are due also to Jesus, because "he was in the form of God",” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 2:34 - 36; Rom 9:5; Titus 2:13; Rev 5:13; Phil 2:6.
The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
“To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ",” — Catechism footnote: Rom 9:4-5.
Fathers and councils · 52
Gregory of Nyssa
“But he knew that He Whom he adored was God over all, for so he terms the Son in his Epistle to the Romans.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Does what has been said leave us any longer in ignorance of Him Who is “God over all,” Who is so entitled by S. Paul,—our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, as He Himself says, holding in His hand “all things that the Father hath,” assuredly grasps all…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…idea, he uses, when he is proclaiming that nature which transcends and surpasses all intelligence, the more exalted order of names, calling Him “God over all,” “the great God,” “the power” of God, and “the wisdom” of God, and the like; but when he is alluding to all that experience of suffering which, by reason of…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…and “God over all,” saying to the Romans, “Whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever,” and writing to his disciple Titus, “According to the appearing of Jesus Christ the great God and our Saviour,” and to Timothy, proclaims in plain terms, “God…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“And yet this phrase, “over all,” as has been previously observed, is common to the Son with the Father, the Apostle having expressly ascribed such a title to Him, when he says, “Of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, Who is God over all.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again, writing to the Romans about Israel, he says: “Whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Tertullian
“But when Christ alone (is mentioned), I shall be able to call Him “God,” as the same apostle says: “Of whom is Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, he expressly called Christ God, saying: “Of whom are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…and was sold into Egypt, on account of the favour of God; just as Christ was sold by Israel—(and therefore,) “according to the flesh,” by His “brethren”—when He is betrayed by Judas.” — editor's note: Comp. Rom. ix. 5.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But if He be Word of the Father and true Son, and God from God, and ‘over all blessed for ever,’ is it not becoming to obliterate and blot out those other phrases and that Arian Thalia, as but a pattern of evil, a store of all irreligion, into which,…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…in confutation of the Jews hath Paul written in his Epistle to the Romans, ‘Of whom as concerning the flesh is Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever;’ while silencing the Greeks, he has said, ‘The visible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Amen.’” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Amen.’” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Amen?’” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And we cannot express ourselves otherwise, he says; for the apostle also acknowledges one God, when he says, “Whose are the fathers, (and) of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
“That meaning also is not unreasonable, because by the figure of parents He points to the Jews of whom Christ was born, (Rom. 9:5.) and thought the Church to be preferred to the synagogue.” — the author cites it
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“(Rom. 9:5.)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The like doctrine thou has also in the interpretation of the Stone, which was cut out of a mountain without hands, which is Christ according to the flesh; And His kingdom shall not be left to another people.” — editor's note: Ib. ii. 45; Rom. ix. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…to enjoy Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that “Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” “who is over all, God blessed for ever,” calling unto me, and saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” and mingling that food which I was unable to receive with our flesh.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment““Whose” (saith the Apostle) “are the fathers, of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Already this hath come to pass, Christ hath risen up, “who is over all things, God blessed for ever,” and His enemies have been dispersed through all nations, to wit, the Jews; in that very place, where they practised their enmities, being overthrown in war,…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“So then did God forsake Christ, though “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,” though Christ was also God, out of the Jews indeed according to the flesh, “Who is over all things, God blessed for ever,”—did God forsake Him?” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless because Christ Himself is of the seed of David after the flesh, but God above all things blessed for ever, He is Himself our King and our God; our King, inasmuch as born of the tribe of Judah, after the flesh, was Christ the Lord, the Saviour; but our God, who is…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore did He this which He did, that the Word should be made flesh, that “God over all things” should suffer indignities from men, that He should endure to be smitten upon the face by the hands which Himself had made?” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5. Deus super omnia: so de Trin. ii. 23, c. Faust. iii. 3, 6, Propos. ex Ep. ad Rom. Exp. 59, super omnes Deus. S. Aug. constantly refers this clause…
Read the whole comment“…in a certain manner out of the womb of His secrecy, before the eyes of men as Man, the Mediator between God and men, “who is over all, God blessed for ever,” sent before Him, in the person of the holy patriarchs and prophets, a certain portion of His body, wherewith, as by a hand, He gave token beforetime of His own…” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5
Read the whole comment“In the service of prefiguring this King in that earthly kingdom of the people of Israel, King David stood forth pre-eminent, of whose seed according to the flesh that truest King was to come, to wit, our Lord Jesus Christ, ‘who is over all, God blessed for ever.’” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5
Read the whole comment“Therefore He may be rightly understood to be the Saviour Himself, of whom the apostle says, “Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5
Read the whole comment“…of the Jewish people, the Apostle saith, “Whose are the fathers, of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“The same border said of the Jews, “Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…the earthly Jerusalem presented a prophetic figure of the heavenly city, or to Jesus Christ, “according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever,” the Maker and Ruler of the heavenly city?” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…promises and legislation, goes on to say “Whose are the fathers, and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever Amen,” and in this same passage he exhibits Him both as Creator of all things and Lord and Ruler as God and as sprung from the Jews as man.” — editor's note: Romans ix. 5
Read the whole comment““But had it been becoming to attribute to Him any kind of infirmity, any one might have said that it was natural to attach these qualities to the manhood, though not to the fulness of the Godhead, or to the dignity of the highest wisdom, or to Him who according to Paul is described as God over all.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5
Read the whole comment“Amen,” and again “Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5
Read the whole comment“He calls the same both Jesus Christ, and Son of David, and Son of God, as God and Lord of all, and yet in the middle of his epistle, after making mention of the Jews, he adds, “whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever, amen.”” — editor's note: Romans ix. 5
Read the whole comment“Amen.”” — editor's note: Romans ix. 5
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Ambrose of Milan
“But He is not after the Father, for He is not “a new God;” nor is He “a strange God,” for He is begotten of the Father, and because, as it is written, He is “God above all, blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“The Son, therefore, exists not “amongst” but above all things, being, indeed, after the flesh, of the people, of the Jews, but yet at the same time God over all, blessed for ever, having a Name which is above every name, it being said of Him, “Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5; cf. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“For there is nothing which God is ignorant of; and Christ, yea the most high Christ, is God, for He is “God over all.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…it is said, All things are of God, and all things are through the Son, then, too, when the Apostle says of Christ, “Who is over all, God blessed for ever,” He set Christ not only above all creatures, but (which it is impious to say) above the Father also.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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John Chrysostom
“What then, when the Apostle says, “The Great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ” ( Tit. ii. 13 ); and again, “Who is above all, God”? ( Rom. ix. 5.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Or rather, one would not be wrong in calling both these things “salvation” which He said was “of the Jews”; which Paul implied when he said, “Of whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all.” ( Rom. ix. 5.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“How was He a rod? how Son of man? how was Mary His mother? how was He of David’s seed? how did he “take the form of a servant?”how “was the Word made flesh?”and how saith Paul to the Romans, “Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is God over all?”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
“What say you then, when the Apostle. writes, The great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Tit. 2:13) and again, Who is over all, God; (Rom. 9:5) and Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father; (Rom. 1:7) without the article?” — the author cites it
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“(Rom. 9:5) See how He exalts the Old Testament, which He shews to be the root of every thing good; thus proving in every way that He Himself is not opposed to the Law.” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“Amen.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…Apostle Paul’s teaching agrees, when he says “whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ according to the flesh, Who is above all God blessed for ever,” and so to Timothy “remember,” he says, “that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, of the seed of David.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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John Cassian
“…law, and the service of God, and the promises: whose are the fathers, of whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 3–5.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But Paul, once the persecutor of the Church, says, Whose are the fathers, from Whom is Christ, Who is God over all.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“But Paul knows full well that Christ is God, for he says, Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, Who is God over all.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…the Word was with God, and since He was the true Light, and since God Only-begotten is in the bosom of the Father, and since Jesus Christ is God over all.” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 5.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…and the service (of God), and the promises; whose are the fathers, of whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is God over all, blessed for evermore.”” — editor's note: Rom. ix. 3–5.
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Cross-references · 56
Cited together in Catechism §839.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against the Arians IV.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 133.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Confessions VII.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.2.
Cited together in Catechism §449 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Confessions VII.18.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity II.13.
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Cited together in Against the Arians IV.1.
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Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 20.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.2.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 3.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 8:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XV.20.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.2.
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Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 3:23–38 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 8:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 8:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 8:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XV.20.
Cited together in Letters Letter 133.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 1:1 (8) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions VII.18 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 4:19–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 4:19–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against the Arians IV.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 133.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 1:1 (8) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.