Annotation CCLIII

”For I also am an Israelite.” — Romans 11:1

Whether Paul was equal to Peter in dignity.

Chrysostom, [in] the eighteenth homily on the epistle to the Romans, in the exposition of the present clause: “FOR neither,” he says, “if God had been about to repel his people, would he have chosen Paul for himself out of the Israelites — to whom he would grant all preaching, to whom the affairs of the world, all the mysteries, and the universal dispensation.” Germain de Brie [Germanus Brixius], the interpreter [translator] of Chrysostom’s homilies on Paul, annotating this passage in the margin, says: “SEE what Chrysostom attributes to Paul.” Read below, Annotation 269.