On this day of St. Ambrose, some of his most beautiful words:
"Moreover, the world was subjected to him through the law, because by the prescriptions of the law everyone was indicted and by the works of the law no one is justified. In other words, through the law sin is recognized, but its guilt is not relieved. The law was shown to be harmful since all are made sinners, but when the Lord Jesus came, he forgave the sin for everyone, which no one could avoid, and he blotted out the bill of indictment that stood against us by pouring out his blood." - Letter 73 to Irenaeus (a layman), cited in the The Apology to the Augsburg Confession, IV:103
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