Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 51

Chapter LI.&#8212;His Teaching Concerning the Law.

&#8220;And His sending to the scribes and teachers of the existing Scriptures, as to those who knew the true things of the law that then was, is well known.&#160; And also that He said, &#8216;I am not come to destroy the law,&#8217; and yet that He appeared to be destroying it, is the part of one intimating that the things which He destroyed did not belong to the law.&#160; And His saying, &#8216;The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law,&#8217; intimated that the things which pass away before the heaven and the earth do not belong to the law in reality.