“Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.”
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law of faith. The rhetorical question exposes the logic of boasting (kauchesis): it is excluded by the principle of faith. Works-based righteousness would permit boasting; faith-based righteousness precludes it. All credit goes to God who grants the gift of faith.
Church Fathers on Romans 3:27
“Where is boasting then? It is excluded,” he says. “By what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.” Paul is at great pains to show that faith is mighty to a degree which was never even fancied of the Law. For after he had said that God justifies man by faith, he grapples with the Law again. And he does not say, where then are the well doings of the Jews? Where their righteous dealing? But, “where is then the boasting?” so taking every opportunity of showing, that they…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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