Romans 3:31
Douay-Rheims
Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.
Tertullian
But he had withal said above: "Are we, then, making void the law through faith? Far be it; but we are establishing the law " -forsooth in those (points) which, being even now interdicted by the New Testament, are prohibited by an even more emphatic precept: instead of, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Whoever shall have seen with a view to concupiscence, hath already committed adultery in his own heart; " and instead of, "Thou shalt not kill," "Whoever shall have said to his brother, Racha, shall be in danger of hell.
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A.D. 220 · on Rom 3:31 (On Modesty)
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