And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Every one, he says: be who he may. For those (ordinances) are of no use, unless there be some benefit (accruing therefrom.) This is why he brings in forgiveness later: and shows it to be greater, when, the thing being (otherwise) impossible, yet this is effected. Who are His witnesses, he says, unto the people— the people that slew Him. Who would never have been so, were they not strengthened by a Divine Power: for they would never have borne such witness to blood-thirsty men, to the very persons that killed Him. But, He has raised up Jesus again: This day, he says, I have begotten you.
