“But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:”
But glory, honour and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. The mirror image: those who do good (ergon agathon) receive glory, honor, and peace (eirēnē). The repetition of Jew first, then Gentile establishes that God's justice is impartial—the privilege once held in the first promise is also universal in its application here. Yet the question persists: who truly does good?
Church Fathers on Romans 2:10
“But glory, honor, and peace to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.” What Jew does he here mean? Or about what Gentiles is he discoursing? It is of those before Christ's coming. For his discourse had not hitherto come to the times of grace, but he was still dwelling upon the earlier times, so breaking down first from afar off and clearing away the separation between the Greek and the Jew, that when he should do this in the matter of grace,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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