Romans 8:32

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?
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Alexander of Alexandria

AD 250
Paul has declared, who thus speaks of God: "Who spared not His own Son, but for us "who were not His natural sons, "delivered Him up."

Ambrose of Milan

AD 397
Who can grieve because a security especially dear to him has been taken away, when for our comfort the Father delivered his only Son to death for us? On the Death of His Brother Satyrus

Ambrosiaster

AD 400
Paul urges us to rest assured on account of our faith by showing us that God gave up his Son to death on our behalf even before we had ceased being sinners, because he knew in advance that we would believe. He says that God long ago decided that all those who believed in Christ would be rewarded. Thus if God is prepared to give us the greatest things, even to the point of sacrificing his own Son on our behalf, how can we not believe that he will give us the lesser things as well? For the believer’s rewards are already waiting. Giving them to us is not nearly as difficult as handing Christ over to death for our sake. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
He that spared not: This is another argument for us to hope in the goodness of God, who hath so loved the world, that he hath delivered, and given his true and only Son for us all, to redeem all and every one, and has by his death obtained helps and graces by which we may all be saved. How hath he not also, with him, given us all things? That is, since he has given for us his only Son, how can we doubt, but that, with him, he will give us all gifts and graces? He hath given us, says St. Chrysostom, his Son himself, and how can we doubt of other blessings? (Witham)

Ignatius of Antioch

AD 108
Now I write these things unto you, not that I know there are any such persons among you; nay, indeed I hope that God will never permit any such report to reach my ears, He "who spared not His Son for the sake of His holy Church."

John Chrysostom

AD 407
Up to this point there was shadow, but now the truth of things is shown to be more excellent. This rational Lamb, you see, was offered for the whole world; he purified the whole world; he freed human beings from error and led them forward to the truth; he made earth into heaven, not by altering the nature of the elements but by transferring life in heaven to human beings on earth. Through him all worship of demons is made pointless; through him people no longer worship wood and stone, nor do those endowed with reason bow down to material things—instead, all error has been abolished and the light of truth has shone brightly on the world. Do you see the superiority of the truth? Do you see what shadow is, on the one hand, and truth on the other? Homilies on Genesis

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
This verity the apostle also perceived, when he writes to this effect: "If the Father spa. red not His own Son." 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? " Why, in this very standing of yours there was a fleeing from persecution, in the release from persecution which you bought; but that you should ransom with money a man whom Christ has ransomed with His blood, how unworthy 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.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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