Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 19:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 95, footnote 9 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter. (HTML)

A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 831 (In-Text, Margin)

... 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;[Exodus 19:12] here it was given inwardly, so that they might be justified. For this, “Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment,”—such, of course, as was written on those tables,—“it is ...