Romans 5:1
Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Justificati ergo ex fide, pacem habeamus ad Deum per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Δικαιωθέντες οὖν ἐκ πίστεως εἰρήνην ἔχομεν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,
Haydock's commentary
The apostle proceeds in this chapter to shew how great a benefit it is to be truly justified by the coming of Christ.
Let us have 1 peace with God. That is, says St. Chrysostom, by laying aside all contentions. Or let us have peace with God by sinning no more. And this peace we may have under the greatest tribulations, which conduce to our greater good, to an increase in virtues, in patience, in hope, in the love of God, &c. (Witham)
1 Pacem habeamus. In the common Greek copies we read echomen, habemus. But in other manuscripts echomen, as St. Chrysostom must have read by his commentary, meke[] amartanomen. &c.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace, Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No Punishment in the Church Greater Than Excommunication
Therefore, let brethren who are subject be rebuked by those who are set over them, with rebukes that spring from love, varied according to the diversity of faults, whether smaller or greater. Because that very penalty that is called condemnation, which episcopal judgment inflicts, than which there is no greater punishment in the Church, may, if God will, result and be of advantage for most wholesome rebuke. For we know not what may happen on the coming day; nor must any one be despaired of before the end of this life; nor can God be contradicted, that He may not look down and give repentance, and receive the sacrifice of a troubled spirit and a contrite heart, and absolve from the guilt of condemnation, however just, and so Himself not condemn the condemned person. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily IX on Rom. iv. 23
Chap. v. ver. 1 . “Therefore being justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” What does “Let us have peace” mean? Some say, “Let us not be at variance, through a peevish obstinacy for bringing in the Law.” But to me he seems to be speaking now of our conversation. For after having said much on the subject of faith, he had set it before righteousness which is by works, to prevent any one from supposing what he said was a ground for listlessness, he says, “let us have peace,” that is, let us sin no more, nor go back to our former estate. For this is making war with God. And “how is it possible,” saith one, “to sin no more?” How was the former thing possible? For if when liable for so many sins we were freed from all by Christ, much more shall we be able through Him to abide in the estate wherein we are. …
St Leo the Great Sermons, On the Feast of the Nativity, VI
The Saviour then, dearly beloved, is born not of fleshly seed but of the Holy Spirit, in such wise that the condemnation of the first transgression did not touch Him. And hence the very greatness of the boon conferred demands of us reverence worthy of its splendour. For, as the blessed Apostle teaches, “we have received not the spirit of this world but the Spirit which is of God , that we may know the things which are given us by God :” and that Spirit can in no other way be rightly worshipped, except by offering Him that which we received from Him. …