On Rom 16:25 and “to him”:
to him—to God, the Trinity. (The Glossa Ordinaria
on Romans [trans. Michael Scott Woodard; TEAMS Commentary Series; Kalamazoo,
Mich.: Western Michigan University, 2011], 231)
On
Rom 16:27:
to the wise God
alone. Here an error creeps up on some who
think that only the Father is meant and that he alone is truly wise, although
it does not say to the wise Father alone but to the wise God alone, the
one God and Trinity. We understand the wise God alone in the same way we
understand the powerful God alone, i.e., the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This
is the one and only God whom alone we are commanded to worship. Yet even if the
apostles had said, to the wise Father alone, this would not leave out the Son
or the Holy Spirit. For it is read of the Son in the Apocalypse: He has a
name written which no one knows except himself (Rev. 19:12). Yet it is not
asserted from that that the father, from whom the Son is inseparable, does not
know this name. Therefore, just as the Father knows what no one is said to know
except the Son, because Father and Son are inseparable, so too, if it should
say, to the wise Father alone, both Son and Holy Spirit should be understood at
the same time, because they are inseparable from the Father. (Ibid., 232)
