For there is verily an annulment of the previous commandment because of the weakness and uselessness thereof.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
For there is verily (he says) a disannulling of the commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. Here the Heretics press on. But listen attentively. He did not say for the evil, nor, for the viciousness, but for the weakness and unprofitableness [thereof], yea and in other places also he shows the weakness; as when he says In that it was weak through the flesh. Romans 8:3 [The law] itself then is not weak, but we.
