Romans 9:5

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Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

Paul lists so many indications of the nobility and dignity of the Jewish people and of the promises they received in order to deepen his grief for all these things, because by not accepting the Savior they lost the privilege of their fathers and the merit of the promises, and they became worse than the Gentiles, whom they had previously detested when they were without God. For it is a worse evil to lose a dignity than never to have had it. As there is no mention of the Father’s name in this verse and Paul is talking about Christ, it cannot be disputed that he is called God here. For if Scripture is speaking about God the Father and adds the Son, it often calls the Father God and the Son Lord. If someone does not think that it is said here about Christ that he is God, then let him name the person about whom he thinks it is said, for there is no mention of God the Father in this verse. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

The Jews, who held only the first part of this confession, are refuted by the Lord. For when he asked them whose son they said Christ was, they answered “David’s.” This is true according to the flesh. But concerning his divinity … they answered nothing. Therefore the Lord said to them: “Why did David, in the Spirit, call him Lord?” in order that they might realize that they had only confessed that Christ is the son of David and had not said that Christ is Lord of this same David. The first fact is true according to his assumption of flesh, the other accordingto the eternity of his divinity.

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Clement Of Rome

AD 99

Have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also . have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also

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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444

God chose Israel for himself from the beginning, which is why he called it the firstborn. But the Israelites fell because they were proud, wicked and, worst of all, murderers of their Lord. Therefore they perished, for they were rejected and abandoned and excluded from God’s company, placed behind even the Gentiles and cut off from the hope promised to their ancestors. .

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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235

Let us look next at the apostle's word: "Whose are the fathers, of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.". and goeth to the Father."

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

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."

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Methodius of Olympus

AD 311

Of the gods, but which teaches us the wondrous condescension to us men of the awful glory of Him who is God over all.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

Just as Christ was sold by Israel-(and therefore, ) "according to the flesh "by His "brethren". "as the same apostle says: "Of whom is Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever."

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