Anf-01 ix.vi.xvii Pg 15
1 Tim. i. 9.
But the righteous fathers had the meaning of the Decalogue written in their hearts and souls,3995 3995 [Hearts and souls; i.e., moral and mental natures. For a correct view of the patristic conceptions of the Gentiles before the law, this is valuable.]
that is, they loved the God who made them, and did no injury to their neighbour. There was therefore no occasion that they should be cautioned by prohibitory mandates (correptoriis literis),3996 3996 i.e., the letters of the Decalogue on the two tables of stone.
because they had the righteousness of the law in themselves. But when this righteousness and love to God had passed into oblivion, and became extinct in Egypt, God did necessarily, because of His great goodwill to men, reveal Himself by a voice, and led the people with power out of Egypt, in order that man might again become the disciple and follower of God; and He afflicted those who were disobedient, that they should not contemn their Creator; and He fed them with manna, that they might receive food for their souls (uti rationalem acciperent escam); as also Moses says in Deuteronomy: “And fed thee with manna, which thy fathers did not know, that thou mightest know that man doth not live by bread alone; but by every word of God proceeding out of His mouth doth man live.”3997 3997
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.iii Pg 9.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vii.ii Pg 21.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (9) - Ro 4:13; 5:20; 6:14 Ga 3:10-14,19; 5:23
