Date: 397-401

"Surely thy law, O Lord, punishes thievery; yea, and this law is so written in our hearts [lex scripta in cordibus hominum], that iniquity itself cannot blot it out."

— St. Augustine (354-430)

Date: 397-401

"et certe non est interior litterarum scientia quam scripta conscientia, id se alteri facere quod nolit pati." ["Assuredly no science of letters can be so innate as the record of conscience, 'that he is doing to another what from another he would be loth to suffer.'"]

— St. Augustine (354-430)

Date: w. c. 54-8, trans. 1611

"For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else exc...

— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)

Date: w. c. 48-58, trans. 1611

"Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart."

— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)

Date: w. c. 48-58, trans. 1611

"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men."

— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)