“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? — The ἀγάπη (agapē, "love") of Christ is tested by a catalog of adversities: θλῖψις (thlipsis, "trouble"), στενοχωρία (stenochōria, "hardship"), διωγμός (diōgmos, "persecution"), λιμός (limos, "famine"), γυμνότης (gymnotes, "nakedness"), κίνδυνος (kindynos, "danger"), μάχαιρα (machaira, "sword"). Yet all are rhetorically suspended: none can sever the bond.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:35
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” And he does not say of God, so indifferent is it to him whether he mentions the Name of Christ or of God. “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” Observe the blessed Paul's judgment. For he does not mention the things that we are daily getting taken by, love of money and desire of glory and the thraldom of anger, but things that are far more enthralling than these, and of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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