De politia judaica, tam civili quam ecclesiastica, jam inde a suis primordiis, hoc est ab orbe condito, repetita

depraved that this light, once most clear, has been turned in part into thickest darkness, and in part, where it even seems to see something by which it establishes the distinction between right and wrong, between honest and base, it never leads us to the true knowledge of God or of ourselves; nor, as the Apostle bears witness, are any remnants of it left in us for any other use than that we should be ἀναπολόγητοι without excuse. Therefore, conscience also, as it is ruled by that blind leader, must necessarily err in many things, not to mention that ἀταξία disorder of the affections, which is never overcome by our own powers. There is no doubt, therefore, but that the eternal λόγος φιλάνθρωπος Word who loves humanity taught men clearly, even then, partly by the secret breath of his Spirit and partly by external utterances, of which Moses provides not a few examples, how he wished to be worshiped within and without, and what duties others owed to one another. Those who first received these Laws from God handed them down to their own descendants as if from hand to hand. The ancient history of the world provides us with testimonies of these things, up to the Law brought forth on Mount Sinai and in other regions of the desert, just as it has been most divinely written for us by Moses at the command of God himself. But two records of such laws, in particular, are most ancient—

Rom. 1. 20