To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
The mystery which has been hidden from the ages, he asserts, has now been revealed, that is, shown forth in the time of the apostles: that the Gentiles have been admitted without circumcision to the faith of Christ, which was promised to the Jews. .
And, on the other hand, there is "the riches of the glory of the mystery in the Gentiles "which is faith and hope in Christ; which in another place he has called the "foundation."
Let not others therefore deceive you, for they know not. Why to them alone? To whom He was pleased, he says. See how everywhere He stops the mouth of their questions. To whom God was pleased to make known, he says. Yet His will is not without reason. By way of making them accountable for grace, rather than allowing them to have high thoughts, as though it were of their own achieving, he said, To whom he was pleased to make known. What is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles. He has spoken loftily, and accumulated emphasis, seeking, out of his great earnestness, for amplification upon amplification. For this also is an amplification, the saying indefinitely, The riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles. For it is most of all apparent among the Gentiles, as he also says elsewhere, And that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy. Romans 15:9 For the great glory of this mystery is apparent among others also, but much more among these. For, on a sud...
For the great glory of this mystery is apparent among others also, but much more among these [i.e., among the Gentiles]. For, all of a sudden, to have brought men more senseless than stones to the dignity of angels, simply through bare words and faith alone, without any great labor or effort, shows indeed the glory and riches of mystery. It is as though one were to take a dog, quite consumed with hunger and the mange, foul and loathsome to see, and not so much as able to move but lying deserted, and were to make him all at once into a man, and to display him upon the royal throne. They were accustomed to worship stones and the earth; but they learned that they themselves are better both than the heaven and the sun and that the whole world serves them. They were captives and prisoners of the devil. Suddenly they are placed above his head and lay commands on him and punish him. From being captives and slaves to demons, they have become the body of the Master of the angels and archangels....
