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Annotation CCXLVII, The privation of eternal glory (Romans 8:27)

“He asketh for the saints according to God.”

Annotation CCXLVII

”He asketh for the saints according to God.” — Romans 8:27

The privation of eternal glory.

Chrysostom, not far from the end of homily 14 on the epistle to the Romans, [coming] to a

—recurring to a sentence peculiar to himself, says: the privation of the DIVINE glory [to be] graver than any gehenna, and the alienation from the eternal rest [to be] worse than any punishments whatsoever. See above, Annotation 41 of this book.

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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CCXLVII, The privation of eternal glory (Romans 8:27),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/249-annotation-ccxlvii-the-privation-of-eternal-glory-romans-8-2/.

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