Cyril of Jerusalem

In his own words on Romans

• Romans 2:16

  The awe-inspiring countenance of the Judge will compel you to speak the truth. Even if you are silent, it will convict you. You will rise clothed either in your sins or in your just deeds. The Judge himself declared this.

  CATECHESIS 15.25

• Romans 5:14

  Paul's meaning is that, although Moses was a righteous and admirable man, the death sentence promulgated upon Adam reached him as well, and also those who came after, even though neither he nor they copied the sin of Adam in disobediently eating of the tree.

  Catechetical Lecture 15.31

• Romans 6:4

  As Jesus died in taking away the sins of the world, that, by doing sin to death, he might rise in righteousness, so too, when you go down into the water and are, in a fashion, entombed in the water as he was in the rock, you may rise again to walk "in newness of life."

  Catechetical Lecture 3.12

• Romans 11:19

  When you were stripped you were anointed with exorcised olive oil, from the topmost hairs of your head to the soles of your feet, and became partakers of the good olive tree, Jesus Christ. Cuttings from the wild olive tree, you were grafted into the good olive tree and became partakers of the richness of the true olive tree.

  THE MYSTAGOGICAL LECTURES 2.3

• Romans 15:24

  Paul instructed imperial Rome and extended the zeal of his preaching even to Spain, sustaining countless conflicts and performing signs and wonders.

  CATECHESIS 17.26

• Romans 16:18

  The heretics do this by coating over their poison pills of godless doctrines with the honey of the name of Christ.

  Catechetical Lecture 4.2