“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,”
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, nor the present nor the future, nor any powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Paul's closing confidence: no ἀγάπη-separating force exists—not θάνατος (thanatos, "death") or ζωή (zōē, "life"), not ἄγγελος (angelos, "angels") or δαιμόνιον (daimonion, "demons"), not the temporal (present/future) or spatial (height/depth), not any δύναμις (dynamis, "power").
Church Fathers on Romans 8:38
“For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” These are great things here mentioned. But the reason we do not enter into them is, because we have not so great love. Yet still though they are great, as he wished to show that they were nothing beside the love…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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