“Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,”
David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works. David's testimony from Psalm 32 confirms what Abraham exemplifies. Blessedness comes through God's crediting righteousness independent of works. David's paradigm parallels Abraham's: faith, not effort, is rewarded.
Church Fathers on Romans 4:6
“To him that believes in Him that justifies the ungodly.” For reflect how great a thing it is to be persuaded and have full confidence that God is able on a sudden not to free a man who has lived in impiety from punishment only, but even to make him just, and to count him worthy of those immortal honors. Do not then suppose that this one is lowered in that it is not reckoned unto the former of grace. For this is the very thing that makes the believer glorious; the fact of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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