{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020149.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020149.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020149.htm","text":"Moreover, concerning the righteousness which the law enjoined, confirmatory utterances are found both with the prophets and in the Gospels, because they all spoke inspired by one Spirit of God. Isaiah accordingly spoke thus: \u201cPut away the evil of your doings from your souls; learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.\u201d 655 And again the same prophet said: \u201cLoose every band of wickedness, dissolve every oppressive contract, let the oppressed go free, and tear up every unrighteous bond. Deal out thy bread to the hungry, and bring the houseless poor to thy home. When thou seest the naked, cover him, and hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Then shall thy light p. 115 break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily, and thy righteousness shall go before thee.\u201d 656 In like manner also Jeremiah says: \u201cStand in the ways, and see, and ask which is the good way of the Lord your God, and walk in it and ye shall find rest for your souls. Judge just judgment, for in this is the will of the Lord your God.\u201d 657 So also says Hosea: \u201cKeep judgment, and draw near to your God, who established the heavens and created the earth.\u201d 658 And another, Joel, spoke in agreement with these: \u201cGather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children that are in arms; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet, and pray to the Lord thy God urgently that he may have mercy upon you, and blot out your sins.\u201d 659 In like manner also another, Zachariah: \u201cThus saith the Lord Almighty, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother; and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, nor the stranger; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart, saith the Lord Almighty.\u201d 660","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: THEOPHILUS: Chapter XII.\u2014Of Righteousness.","type":"page"}