Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Why, then, did the Lord not form the covenant for the fathers? Because "the law was not established for righteous men."[197] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV For when you take away the cause of fear, sin, you have taken away fear; and much more, punishment, when you have taken away that which gives rise to lust. "For the law is not made for the just man,"[10] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII Wherefore also the commandments, according to the Law, and before the Law, not given to the upright (for the law is not appointed for a righteous man[14] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes Now it is written that "the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners."[285]