• ἐρωτᾷς περὶ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ εἷς ἐστιν ὁ ἀγαθός ; — SBLGNT
• ἐρωτᾷς περὶ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ; εἷς ἐστιν ὁ ἀγαθός — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• λέγεις ἀγαθόν; Οὐδεὶς ἀγαθός εἰ μὴ εἷς ὁ θεός — Robinson-Pierpont

• εἰς τὴν ζωὴν εἰσελθεῖν — SBLGNT
• εἰς τὴν ζωὴν εἰσελθεῖν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ζωήν — Robinson-Pierpont

• τήρησον — SBLGNT
• τήρησον — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
• τήρει — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles

§2052"Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" To the young man who asked this question, Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the "One there is who is good," as the supreme Good and the source of all good. Then Jesus tells him: "If you would enter life, keep the commandments." and he cites for his questioner the precepts that concern lov…

It clearly appears that there was but one author of both the old and the new law, from the fact that Christ condemned traditions and customs repugnant to the former, while He confirmed its most important precepts, and taught that He was Himself the end of the Mosaic law. 1. For the tradition of the elders themselves, which they pretended to observe from the law, was contrary to…

Chapter 1 In the first book of our answer to the work of Celsus, who had boastfully entitled the treatise which he had composed against us A True Discourse, we have gone through, as you enjoined, my faithful Ambrosius, to the best of our ability, his preface, and the parts immediately following it, testing each one of his assertions as we went along, until we finished with the …

Chapter 1 It is not, my reverend Ambrosius, because we seek after many words — a thing which is forbidden, and in the indulgence of which it is impossible to avoid sin — that we now begin the fifth book of our reply to the treatise of Celsus, but with the endeavour, so far as may be within our power, to leave none of his statements without examination, and especially those in w…

Without grace, can man know anything? Without God's grace, can man do or wish any good? Without grace, can man love God above all things? Without grace, can man keep the commandments of the Law? Without grace, can he merit eternal life? Without grace, can man prepare himself for grace? Without grace, can he rise from sin? Without grace, can man avoid sin? Having received grace,…