Matthew 5:17
Douay-Rheims
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
Augustine of Hippo
(Serm. in Mont. i. 8.) By the words, one iota or one point shall not pass from the Law, we must understand only a strong metaphor of completeness, drawn from the letters of writing, iota being the least of the letters, made with one stroke of the pen, and a point being a slight dot at the end of the same letter. The words there shew that the Law shall be completed to the very least matter.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:17-19
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.