What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, you shall not covet.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But, behold, he bears testimony to the law, and excuses it on the ground of sin: "What shall we say, therefore? Is the law sin? God forbid.".
"God forbid! "(See how) the apostle recoils from all impeachment of the law. I, however, have no acquaintance with sin except through the law.