Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 86
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I
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It is to be observed that this writer sometimes speaks as a Gentile, a fact which some have found it difficult to account for, on the supposition that he was a Hebrew, if not a Levite as well. But so, also, St. Paul sometimes speaks as a Roman, and sometimes as a Jew ; and, owing to the mixed character of the early Church, he writes to the Romans (iv. i ) as if they were all Israelites, and again to the same Church (Rom. xi. 13) as if they were all Gentiles. So this writer some- times identifies himself with Jewish thought as a son of Abraham, and again speaks from the Christian position…
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