Commenting on Rom 3:25:
To
declare His righteousness. What is declaring of righteousness?
Like the declaring of His riches, not only so as to shew Him as rich Himself,
but so also as to make others rich, or of life, not that He only is Himself
living, but also that He makes the dead to live; and of His power, not that He
only is Himself powerful, but also that He makes the feeble powerful. So also
is the declaring of His righteousness not only that He is Himself righteous,
but that He doth also make them that are filled with the putrefying sores of
sin suddenly righteous. And it is to explain this, viz. what is declaring, that he has added, That He might be just, and the justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus. Doubt not then: for it is not of works but of
faith: and shun not the righteousness of God, for it is a blessing in two ways;
because it is easy, and also open to all men. And be not abashed and
shamefaced. For if He Himself declareth Himself to do so, and He, so to say,
findeth a delight and a pride therein, how comest thou to be dejected and to
hide thy face at what thy Master glorieth in? Now then after raising his
hearers’ expectations by saying that what had taken place was a declaring of
the righteousness of God, he next by fear urges him on that is tardy and
remissful about coming; by speaking as follows, (John Chrysostom,
Homily 7 on Romans, in The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople,
on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans [A Library of Fathers
of the Holy Catholic Church; Oxford: John Henry Parker; London: J. G. F. and J.
Rivington, 1841], 94)
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