The Apostolic Fathers

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus

by Irenaeus
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Fragment 16

Explaining the law again to the generation that came after those who were slain in the wilderness, he published Deuteronomy; not to provide them with a different law from the one given to their fathers, but to recapitulate the latter, so that by hearing what had happened to their fathers, they might fear God with their whole heart.