Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je leur donnai aussi des préceptes qui n'étaient pas bons, et des ordonnances par lesquelles ils ne pouvaient vivre.
KJV
Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
the Old Law was good? Objection 1: It would seem that the Old Law was not good. For it is written ( Ezech. 20:25 ): "I gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments in which they shall not live." But a law is not said to be good except on account of the goodness of the pre…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
INTERROGATIO LIII (Alias 52). Cum Dominus per Ezechielem dicat: Ego dedi eis praecepta non bona (Ezech. XX, 25) , quomodo Paulus quasi e contrario dicit: Lex quidem sancta, et mandatum sanctum, et justum, et bonum (Rom. [Col. 0619D] VII, 12) ? RESPONSIO (Ex Gregor. Magn., l…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)
non vivent, et pollui in muneribus suis, cum offerrent omne quod aperit vulvam propter delicta sua (Ezech. XX, 25, 26) . Quare non bona, cum, juxta apostolum nostrum, lex sit sancta, et mandatum et justum et bonum? (Rom. VII, 12.) Corticem et ossa rodentibus non [Col. 0521B] bo…
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