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Chapter IV.
Let us notice also how he thinks to cast discredit
upon our system of morals,3089
alleging that it is
only common to us with other philosophers, and no venerable or new
branch of instruction. In reply to which we have to say, that
unless all men had naturally impressed upon their minds sound ideas of
morality, the doctrine of the punishment of sinners would have been
excluded by those who bring upon themselves the righteous judgments of
God. It is not therefore matter of surprise that the same God
should have sown in the hearts of all men those truths which He taught
by the prophets and the Saviour, in order that at the divine judgment
every man may be without excuse, having the
“requirements3090
| 3090 τὸ βούλημα
τοῦ νόμου. | of the law written
upon his heart,”—a truth obscurely alluded to by the
Bible3091
in what the Greeks regard as a myth, where
it represents God as having with His own finger written down the
commandments, and given them to Moses, and which the wickedness of the
worshippers of the calf made him break in pieces, as if the flood of
wickedness, so to speak, had swept them away. But Moses having
again hewn tables of stone, God wrote the commandments a second time,
and gave them to him; the prophetic word preparing the soul, as it
were, after the first transgression, for the writing of God a second
time.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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