And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
God wants us to be set apart from all contamination so that he can receive us as his children. By this testimony Paul exhorts us to a pure life. He shows that Jesus Christ was already our Lord in ancient times and was predestined to receive us in the fondness of his love. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
Paul is prophetic in telling us to put up a barrier, not between ourselves and the married but between ourselves and the Gentiles who are still living immorally, and also from those heresies which believe neither in chastity nor in God. .
And I will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord.
Do you see how from the beginning the Prophet fore-announces our present high birth, the Regeneration by grace?
