What then of the Law
(he says)? We have condemned it, and again we run back to it. This is not a
shifting about, for here also [under the Gospel] we have a law. "Do we
then" (he says) "make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea we
establish the Law." I was speaking concerning evil deeds. For he that
intends to pursue virtue ought to condemn wickedness first, and then go in
pursuit of it. For repentance cannot prove them clean. For this cause they
were straightway baptized, that what they were unable to accomplish by
themselves, this might be effected by the grace of Christ. Neither then does
repentance suffice for purification, but men must first receive baptism. At all
events, it was necessary to come to baptism, having condemned the sins thereby and
given sentence against them. (John Chrysostom, Homily 9 on the Epistle to the
Hebrews [NPNF1 14:410])
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