You Became the Slaves of Righteousness
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There are two gifts of God which he here points out. The “freeing from sin,” and also the “making them servants to righteousness,” which is better than any freedom. For God hath done the same as if a person were to take an orphan, who had been carried away by savages into their own country, and were not only to free him from captivity, but were to set a kind father ever him, and bring him to very great dignity. And this has been done in our case. For it was not our old evils alone that He freed us from, since He even led us to the life of angels, and paved the way for us to the best conversation, handing us over to the safe keeping of righteousness, and killing our former evils, and deadening the old man, and leading us to an immortal life.
John Chrysostom. “Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans.” Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans. Ed. Philip Schaff. Trans. J. B. Morris, W. H. Simcox, & George B. Stevens. Vol. 11. New York: Christian Literature Company, 1889. 412. Print. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series.
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