Pelagius — on Rom 7:4 (PELAGIUS'S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS)

“Paul was reluctant to tell the Jews that the law was dead, but what he dared not say out loud he leaves to be understood.… A man bears fruit for God when his works of righteousness like fruit break out in blossom, then grow into fruit, and finally become fully ripe, for no fruit is forever in blossom.”