“For He is not so well pleased with being called Master, as Father, nor with having a…”
For He is not so well pleased with being called Master, as Father, nor with having a slave as with having a son.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans, Homily X (on Rom. V. 12)
On Romans 5: what God is said to prefer being called, which Chrysostom takes as the shortest statement of what the gospel changed.
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Read in Morris & Simcox, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. B. Morris and W. H. Simcox, revised by George B. Stevens
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