Or has found that which was lost, and lies concerning it, and swears falsely; in any of all these that a man does, sinning therein:
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Shall we therefore say that when it is written that whoever finds another man’s property of any kind that has been lost, should return it to him who has lost it, doesn’t pertain to us? Do not many other like things pertain whereby people learn to live piously and uprightly? Isn’t especially the Decalogue itself, which is contained in those two tables of stone, apart from the carnal observance of the sabbath, which signifies spiritual sanctification and rest? Against Two Letters of the Pelagians
