Tertullian

“ To help forward this beneficent, not onerous, purpose of the law, the prophets were also ordained by the self-same goodness of God, teaching precepts worthy of God, how that men should “cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek judgment, judge the fatherless, [3] and plead for the widow:” [4] be fond of the divine expostulations: [5] avoid contact with the wicked: [6] “let the oppressed go free:” [7] dismiss the unjust sentence, [8] “deal their bread to the hungry; bring the outcast into their house; cover the naked, when they see him ”

“ Where then? “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity;” [13] meditating (as they do) day and night in the law of the Lord, because “it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man; better to hope in the Lord than in man.” [14] For what recompense shall man receive from God? “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season ”