“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there is wrath and anger. The contrast: those characterized by self-seeking (eritheia) and rejection of truth (apisteo tēi alētheiai) face God's wrath (thumos). The pairing of wrath and anger suggests intensifying divine judgment. Yet again, the principle enunciated—judgment according to works—will prove to implicate all humanity.
Church Fathers on Romans 2:8
“But unto them that are contentious,” he says. Again, he deprives of excuse those that live in wickedness, and shows that it is from a kind of disputatiousness and carelessness that they fall into unrighteousness. “And do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.” See, here is another accusation again. For what defense can he set up, who flees from the light and chooses the dark? And he does not say, who are “compelled by,” “lorded over by,” but who “obey…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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