Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
In this sentence the meaning is twofold. We must deal with it in both ways. For He who says, I am not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil, means it either in the way of adding what is wanting, or of doing what is in it. Let us then consider that first which I have put first: for he who adds what is wanting does not surely destroy what he finds, but rather confirms it by perfecting it.
