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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
For lest they should think that this of itself is "reconciliation," believing on Him that calleth; he adds these words, requiting that earnestness which respects the life. For, for one who hath been freed from sins and made a friend to wallow in the former things, is to return again unto enmity, and to "receive the grace in vain," in respect of the life. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
We, he says, work together both with you and with God: with you, so that you may be saved, and with God, so that His will may be fulfilled, that is, concerning your salvation. "We beseech" on behalf of Christ, even until His second coming, and as long as we exist in this life, so that you may not receive the grace of God in vain. For what is the use of receiving freedom from sins by the grace of God, and then filling up with them again through one's own carelessness? Enmity appears again, and grace toward us becomes futile. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Having commended the ministry of the apostleship, the Apostle now carries out the ministry entrusted to him for the benefit of his subjects. In regard to this he does two things. First, he exhorts them in general to do all the things that are commonly necessary for a good life; secondly, he urges them in particular to help the saints in Jerusalem (chap. 8). In regard to the first he does two things. First, he urges them to goods that are present; secondly, he commends them for the good they have done in the past (chap. 7). …
Bonaventure
Grace is more necessary for us than the Law; to receive which grace fruitfully, our mother the Church and the Apostle Paul exhort us. The Apostle Paul in this brief word rouses us to receive divine grace, to guard the grace received, and to multiply the grace received and guarded. He exhorts us not to receive the grace of God in vain, but to receive it fruitfully: therefore he means to say that we should be ready to receive, guard, and multiply the grace of God. …
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