Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 32:32

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 102, footnote 9 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

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

How the Passage of the Law Agrees with that of the Prophet. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 936 (In-Text, Margin)

If therefore the apostle, when he mentioned that the Gentiles do by nature the things contained in the law, and have the work of the law written in their hearts, intended those to be understood who believed in Christ,—who do not come to the faith like the Jews, through a precedent law,—there is no good reason why we should endeavour to distinguish them from those to whom the Lord by the prophet promises the new covenant, telling them that He will write His laws in their hearts,[Jeremiah 32:32] inasmuch as they too, by the grafting which he says had been made of the wild olive, belong to the self-same olive-tree, —in other words, to the same people of God. There is therefore a good agreement of this passage of the apostle with the words of the ...