The answer
The scholar Origen says, “But thanks be unto God, that, even if the grace of prophecy was taken from the people, a grace greater than all that was poured forth among the Gentiles by our Saviour Jesus Christ”568
St. Clement of Alexandria, says, “For ‘I became all things to all men, that I might gain all men’ (1 Cor. 9:22). Since also ‘the rain’ of the divine grace is sent down ‘on the just and the unjust’ (Matt. 5:45).”569
St. Ambrose says, “the Apostle aptly explained that God, ‘who wishes all men to be saved’ (1 Tim. 2:4), is good to all men. And the special favor of God’s goodness is reserved most of all for the faithful, who receive the assistance of His good will and of His grace.”570
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
568 Origen, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew 10.22 (ANF 10:429).
569 St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies 5.3 (ANF 2:448).
570 St. Ambrose of Milan, The Prayer of Job and David 3 (FOTC 65:372).