{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050205.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050205.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050205.htm","text":"Chapter 29 [XVII.]\u2014A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law.\nNow, amidst this admirable correspondence, there is at least this very considerable diversity in the cases, in that the people in the earlier instance were deterred by a horrible dread from approaching the place where the law was given; whereas in the other case the Holy Ghost came upon them who were gathered together in expectation of His promised gift. There it was on tables of stone that the finger of God operated; here it was on the hearts of men. There the law was given outwardly, so that the unrighteous might be terrified; 831 here it was given inwardly, so that they might be justified. 832 For this, \u201cThou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment,\u201d\u2014such, of course, as was written on those tables,\u2014\u201cit is briefly comprehended,\u201d says he, \u201cin this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.\u201d 833 Now this was not written on the tables of stone, but \u201cis shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.\u201d 834 God\u2019s law, therefore, is love. \u201cTo it the carnal mind is not subject, neither indeed can be;\u201d 835 but when the works of love are written on tables to alarm the carnal mind, there arises the law of works and \u201cthe letter which killeth\u201d the transgressor; but when love itself is shed abroad in the hearts of believers, then we have the law of faith, and the spirit which gives life to him that loves.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}