Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The law was not given in order for sin to abound, for it was given in order to diminish and destroy the offense. But it resulted in the opposite happening, not because of the nature of the law but because of the weakness of those who received it…. Grace abounded much more, because it gave us not only remission from punishment but forgiveness from sin as well, and in addition, new life.
