Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
The law entered in so that the manysided nature of the fall of those who were under the law might be made clear. Nobody could ever be made righteous because of the weakness of human nature. Rather, everyone condemned themselves by their own crimes of transgression. The law came as the revealer of our common weakness, so that the human race would appear even more clearly to need the aid of the medicine of Christ. .
