Св.Иринеј Лионски, ученик апостолских ученика, да је субота толико битна онда би он то примио од апостолских ученика - који би суботу то требало да приме од самих Апостола.
3. Why, then, did the Lord not form the covenant for the fathers? Because the law was not established for righteous men.
1 Timothy 1:9 But the righteous fathers had the meaning of the Decalogue written in their hearts and
souls, 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), 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 you with
manna, which your fathers did not
know, that you might
know that man does not live by bread alone; but by every word of God proceeding out of His mouth does man live.
Deuteronomy 8:3 And it enjoined
love to
God, and taught just dealing towards our neighbour, that we should neither be
unjust nor unworthy of
God, who prepares man for His friendship through the medium of the Decalogue, and likewise for agreement with his neighbour — matters which did certainly profit man himself;
God, however, standing in no need of anything from man.
5. The
laws of *******, however, were one by one promulgated to the people by
Moses, suited for their instruction or for their punishment, as
Moses himself declared: And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments.
Deuteronomy 4:14 These things, therefore, which were given for *******, and for a sign to them, He cancelled by the new covenant of liberty. But He has increased and widened those
laws which are natural, and noble, and common to all, granting to men largely and without grudging, by means of adoption, to
know God the
Father, and to
love Him with the whole heart, and to follow His word unswervingly, while they abstain not only from
evil deeds, but even from the desire after them. But He has also increased the feeling of reverence; for sons should have more veneration than slaves, and greater
love for their father. And therefore the Lord says, As to every idle word that men have spoken, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:36 And, he who has looked upon a
woman to
lust after her, has committed
adultery with her already in his heart;
Matthew 5:28 and, he that is
angry with his brother without a
cause, shall be in danger of the judgment.
Matthew 5:22 [All this is declared,] that we may
know that we shall give account to God not of
deeds only, as slaves, but even of words and thoughts, as those who have
truly received the power of liberty, in which [condition] a man is more severely tested, whether he will reverence, and
fear, and
love the Lord. And for this reason Peter says that we have not liberty as a cloak of maliciousness,
1 Peter 2:16 but as the means of testing and evidencing
faith.