“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?”
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? The key indictment: boasting in the law (kauchaomai epi nomōi) becomes dishonoring to God (atimázō ton theon) when the law is broken. God's honor is bound up with the law's observance; violation inverts the relationship.
Church Fathers on Romans 2:23
“You that makes a boast in the Law through breaking the Law do you dishonor God?” There are two accusations which he makes, or rather three. Both that they dishonor, and dishonor that whereby they were honored; and that they dishonor Him that honored them, which was the utmost extreme of unfeelingness. And then, not to seem to be accusing them of his own mind, he brings in the Prophet as their accuser, here briefly and concisely as it were in a summary, but afterwards more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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