the Law
Moses
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 3 citations
The law's commands to love and fear God are invoked as authoritative definitions applied respectively to the obedient and the transgressor.
So in the rest too you reproach Him with contrarieties of precepts, as fickle and unstable, forbidding work on the sabbath and commanding the ark to be carried round for eight days, that is, even on the sabbath, in the storming of the city of Jericho.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 citations · 3 passages
The Mosaic Law's rules are repeatedly invoked as regulating and allegorizing right worship.
In this way too the Law does not sacrifice the goat, except in the single rite of the sending-away of evils, since pleasure is the metropolis of vice.
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Apollodorus Against Callippus Demosthenes 1 citation · 3 passages
The law is explicitly invoked and read to authorize the oath procedure.
And that I was ready on my father’s behalf to take the oath which the law prescribes when an heir is sued in court on a charge brought against one who is dead,— that, namely, I believed that my father never agreed to pay the plaintiff the money which Lycon left, and that the plaintiff was not introduced to my father by Lycon;
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