Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Why then do you, impute to the God of the law what His apostle dares not impute even to the law itself? Nay, he adds a climax: "The law is holy, and its commandment just and good."[644] Origen de Principiis Book II And that he might show more clearly that goodness was in the commandment to a greater degree than justice and holiness, repeating his words, he used, instead of these three epithets, that of goodness alone, saying, "Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid."[67] alone. But in those which follow he says, "Sin wrought death in me by that which is good,"[68] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection because it was given, not for injury, but for safety; for let us not suppose that God makes anything useless or hurtful. What thou? "Was then that which is good made death unto me? "[67]