The Law Within

Ἀλλ' ἢ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ Κυρίου τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αὐτοῦ μελετήσει ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός. Ἐπειδή πολλή τίς ἐστι διαφορὰ τῶν φόβῳ τιμωριῶν εὖ πράττειν κρατηναγκασμένων καὶ τῶν προαιρέσει αὐτὸ τὸ καλὸν αἰρουμένων, διὰ τοῦτό φησι· 'Ἐν τῷ νόμῳ Κυρίου τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ.' Νόμον δέ φησιν οὐ πάντως τὸν σκιώδη καὶ τυπικὸν νόμον, πολὺ δὲ πρότερον τὸν ἐν αὐτῷ λεληθότα πνευματικὸν λόγον. Εἴη δ' ἄν νόμος Κυρίου καὶ ὁ κατὰ φύσιν πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐνεσπαρμένος, δι' οὖ κατορθῶσαι λέγονται οἱ πρὸ τοῦ διὰ Μωῦσέως νόμου ἅγιοι· περὶ ὦν φησιν ὁ Ἀπόστολος· Ὅταν γὰρ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ νόμον ἔχοντα,' τὸν γραπτὸν δηλονότι, 'φύσει τὰ τοῦ νόμου ποιῶσιν, οὗτοι νόμον μὴ ἔχοντες ἑαυτοῖς εἰσιν νόμος.' Ἥ νόμος Κυρίου εἴη ἂν ὁ πρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσι κατηγγελμἐνος εὐαγγελικὸς λόγος.   Εὐσέβιος ὁ Καισάρειος, Ὑπομνηματα Ἐις Τους ψαλμους, ψαλμος Α'

'But in the law of the Lord is his will and on His law he will meditate day and night.'1  Because there is a great difference between those who are driven to act well through fear of punishment and those who out of the delight of their own will take themselves to the good, therefore it is said, 'In the law of the Lord is his will.' The law speaks not in shadow and figure but rather the spiritual word spoken is in him. And the law of the Lord has been set within every man's nature, because of which they say well that there were holy men before the time of the law of Moses, concerning which the Apostle says, 'When even the Gentiles who have not the law do naturally the things of the law, not having the law, to themselves they are a law.'2 As it is clearly written. Or the law of our Lord and Saviour, the evangelical word, may be announced to all people. Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 1 1 Ps 1.2 2. Rom 2.14