“As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
As it is written: 'For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' — Paul cites Psalm 44:22, applying it to the Christian reality: believers are ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς (hōs probata sphagēs, "like sheep for the slaughter"). Yet quotation of vulnerability does not diminish security; it acknowledges the costliness of discipleship while asserting its ultimate triumph.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:36
“For Your sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Psalm 43:22 That is, we are exposed to all to be evil entreated of them. But yet against so many and so great dangers and these recent horrors, the object of our conflicts is given as a sufficient consolation, or rather not sufficient only, but even much more. For it is not for men, nor for any other of the things of this life that we suffer, but for the King (he says) of the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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