“What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?”
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered? The question directs attention to Abraham—the patriarch of Jewish faith and covenant privilege. What Abraham discovered through his relationship with God becomes the interpretive key for understanding justification. Abraham is presented as the ancestor who models the pattern of faith.
Church Fathers on Romans 4:1
He had said , that the world had become guilty before God, and that all had sinned, and that boasting was excluded and that it was impossible to be saved otherwise than by faith. He is now intent upon showing that this salvation, so far from being matter of shame, was even the cause of a bright glory, and a greater than that through works. For since the being saved, yet with shame, had somewhat of dejection in it, he next takes away this suspicion too. And indeed he has…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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