Origen de Principiis Book II And this, I think, was the opinion of the Apostle Paul himself, when he said, "Their thoughts mutually accusing or excusing them in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel."[178] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes who are enrolled among the righteous, derive their righteousness when as yet there was no law of Moses, and when as vet the prophets had not arisen and discharged the functions of prophecy? Were they not constituted righteous in virtue of their fulfilling the law, "every one of them showing the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing them witness? "[248] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI "all the thoughts of men meanwhile accusing or else excusing them,"[146]