For I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
We were not righteous before the law came, but given that sin was dead as long as there was no law to condemn it, we lived having the excuse that we did not know what it was that we ought to be doing. .
