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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Who is He that condemneth?" He does not say, it is God that forgave our sins, but what is much greater, "It is God that justifieth." For when the Judge's sentence declares us just, and a Judge such as that too, what signifieth the accuser? Hence neither is it right to fear temptations, for God is for us, and hath shown it by what He hath done; nor again Jewish triflings, for He has both elected and justified us, and the wondrous thing is that it was also by the death of His Son that He did so. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He did not say: God forgives sins, but what is far more important, God justifies. Therefore, let us fear neither those who tempt us nor those who revile us. God has chosen and justified us, and Christ, who died for us and even rose again, intercedes for us. Who then shall condemn us, who have been deemed worthy of such glory? He said "intercedes for us" to show Christ's love for us, that is, that although Christ fulfilled the dispensation in the flesh, He did not cease His love for mankind toward us, but advocates on our behalf. …
Irenaeus
He declares in the plainest manner, that the same Being who was laid hold of, and underwent suffering, and shed His blood for us, was both Christ and the Son of God, who did also rise again, and was taken up into heaven, as he himself [Paul] says: "But at the same time, [it, is] Christ [that] died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God." And again, "Knowing that Christ, rising from the dead, dieth no more:" for, as himself foreseeing, through the Spirit, the subdivisions of evil teachers [with regard …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then he excludes an opposite view. For someone could fear that a person might be accused by Jesus Christ as a violator of Christ's commandment in the same way as the Lord says of Moses: "it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope" (John 5:45); and also that he might be condemned by him, for he is the one "ordained by God to judge the living and the dead" (Acts 10:42). …
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