For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Glossa Ordinaria
Transferring grace. The hardness and strictness of the law, which says an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, the grace of the Gospel tempers, in which the crimes committed are purged through penance and the fruits of almsgiving. But the impious transfer this grace into wantonness, who now sin the more freely, the less they see themselves examined for their crimes by the harshness of the law.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.