{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050260.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050260.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050260.htm","text":"Chapter 13 [XII.]\u2014The Scope and Purpose of the Law\u2019s Threatenings; \u201cPerfect Wayfarers.\u201d\nBut before I proceed further, see what he has said. When treating the question about the difference of sins, and starting as an objection to himself, what certain persons allege, \u201cthat some sins are light by their very frequency, their constant irruption making it impossible that they should be all of them avoided;\u201d he thereupon denied that it was \u201cproper that they should be censured even as light offences, if they cannot possibly be wholly avoided.\u201d He of course does not notice the Scriptures of the New Testament, wherein we learn 1152 that the intention of the law in its censure is this, that, by reason of the transgressions which men commit, they may flee for refuge to the grace of the Lord, who has pity upon them\u2014\u201cthe schoolmaster\u201d 1153 \u201cshutting them up unto the same faith which should afterwards be revealed;\u201d 1154 that by it their transgressions may be forgiven, and then not again be committed, by God\u2019s assisting grace. The road indeed belongs to all who are progressing in it; although it is they who make a good advance that are called \u201cperfect travellers.\u201d That, however, is the height of perfection which admits of no addition, when the goal to which men tend has begun to be possessed.\nWe have read discimus, not dicimus.\n125:1153 125:1154","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Nat...","type":"page"}