“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? — The rhetorical question crystallizes the security of the believer: God's ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν (hyper hēmōn, "for us")—taking our side, acting on our behalf—is absolute. No opponent can prevail. This is the comfort of the golden chain: those predestined are victors.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:31
“What shall we then say to these things?” As if he should say, Let me then hear no more about the dangers and the malicious devices from every quarter. For even if some disbelieve the things to come, still they have not a word to say against the good things that have already taken place; as, for instance, the friendship of God towards you from the first, the justifying, the glory. And yet these things He gave you by means seemingly distressing. And those things which you…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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