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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
While the Israelites, ceaselessly seeking the "law of righteousness," that is, the law of works, did not attain to righteousness; because the law, which consisted of works, was not able to justify.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says but Israel, he draws his conclusion as regards the Jews. And first he concludes what he intends, saying: but Israel, i.e., the people of the Jews, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice. The law of justice is the law of the spirit of life through which men are made just and which the Jewish people did not attain, although they pursued it by observing the shadow of this spiritual law: the law has but a shadow of the good things to come (Heb 10:1). …
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