{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050869.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050869.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050869.htm","text":"Chapter 3.\u2014Scriptural Confirmation of the Catholic Doctrine.\nThis is what we say; this is that about which they object to us that we say \u201cthat the law was so given as to be a cause of greater sin.\u201d They do not hear the apostle saying, \u201cFor the law worketh wrath; for where no law is, there is no transgression;\u201d 2684 and, \u201cThe law was added for the sake of transgression until the seed should come to whom the promise was made;\u201d 2685 and, \u201cIf there had been a law given which could have given life, righteousness should altogether have been by the law; but the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.\u201d 2686 Hence it is that the Old Testament, from the Mount Sinai, where the law was given, gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. \u201cNow we,\u201d says he, \u201care not children of the bondmaid but of the freewoman.\u201d 2687 Therefore they are not children of the freewoman who have accepted the law of the letter, whereby they can be shown to be not only sinners, but moreover transgressors; but they who have received the Spirit of grace, whereby the law itself, holy and just and good, may be fulfilled. This is what we say: let them attend and not contend; let them seek enlightenment and not bring false accusations.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}