Power And The Gospel

Non enim erubesco super evangelium, virtus enim Dei est in salutem omni credenti... Hoc est, sicut quidam doctores erubescebant, qui doctrinam coelestem adjunctis miraculis corroborare nequibant. Virtus enim Dei est, etc. Nulla major virtus est quam quae, devicta morte, homini perditam reddidit vitam, quamvis incredulis infirmitas videbatur? Definiens ergo quid sit evangelium, pronuntiat. Virtus enim Dei est, inquit, in salutem omni credenti. Quod autem dixit quod virtus Dei est in salutem, videtur ostendere, quod sit aliqua virtus Dei quae non sit ad salutem, sed ad perditionem: sicut in Psalmis legitur: In virtute tua disperde illos; virtus enim in dextera est qua salvamur, ut virtus in qua disperdit, sinistra dicatur Sedulius Scotus, Collectanea in omnes B. Pauli epistolas, In Epistolam ad Romanos, Caput Primam Source: Migne PL 103.18c-d

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, it is a power of God for the salvation of all who believe ... 1 That is, not as certain teachers who have been ashamed, who were unable to confirm heavenly teaching with adjoining miracles. 'For it is a power of God.' What power is greater than that which having conquered death returns a destroyed life to a man, although weakness deemed it unbelievable? Therefore he proclaims the definition of the Gospel, that it is a power of God for the salvation of all who believe. That he said it is a power of God for salvation, seems to show that there is a power of God that is not for salvation, but for damnation, as is read in the Psalms, 'With your power scatter them.' 2 For as there is a power of the right hand by which we are saved, so it may be said there is a power of the left hand by which He scatters. Sedulius Scotus, Commentary On The Letters of Saint Paul, On the Letter to the Romans, Chapter 1 1 Rom 1.16 2 Ps 58.12