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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" And he does not say of God, so indifferent is it to him whether he mentions the Name of Christ or of God. "Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" Observe the blessed Paul's judgment. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Having shown the ineffable love of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit toward us, he exclaims as if by divine inspiration: "Who shall separate us from the love of God?" He who is so loved and has been deemed worthy of such providence, nothing can separate him from this love. By the names of tribulation and distress he encompassed everything that can cause afflictions, even though he did not enumerate them one by one.
Cyprian
But if for us and for our sins He both laboured and watched and prayed, how much more ought we to be instant in prayers; and, first of all, to pray and to entreat the Lord Himself, and then through Him, to make satisfaction to God the Father! We have an advocate and an intercessor for our sins, Jesus Christ the Lord and our God, if only we repent of our sins past, and confess and acknowledge our sins, whereby we now offend the Lord, and for the time to come engage to walk in His ways, and to fear His commandments. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then he draws the conclusion, when he says, "who then shall separate us." But because this conclusion does not seem credible to the inexperienced, he presents it in the form of a question. Hence he does three things. First, he presents the question; second, he shows the need for this question, at "as it is written"; third, he presents the solution, at "but in all these things." This question can be derived in two ways from the foregoing. …
Bonaventure
A person is disposed to the influx of the gift of fortitude through the inextinguishable fire of charity. "Love is strong as death": death conquers all, and likewise love conquers all things. Paul, what do you say about charity? "Who," he says, "shall separate me from the charity of God?" He answers: "Tribulation? or distress? or hunger? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? …
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