Tertullian On Monogamy sometimes catch at such parts of the law as they choose; plainly do we too assert that the law has deceased in this sense, that its burdens-according to the sentence of the apostles-which not even the fathers were able to sustain,[42] Tertullian On Modesty For it is the "burdens" of the law which were "until John," not the remedial virtues. It is the "yokes" of "works" that have been rejected, not those of disciplines.[56] Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV With which sin and crime God was offended, and justly visited the impious and ungrateful people with severe punishments, and made them subject to the law[75]