Deuteronomy 30:11 " For the commandment is not too hard for you. "
"Paul’s play on the words of Moses—“Do not say in your heart: ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down, etc.)”—thunders against the work-righteous. For when they fulfill the commandment by works and by their own powers, they deny that Christ ascended into heaven or descended into hell; that is, they deny that He died for us and rose again that we might be justified by the Word of faith and fulfill the Law. For he looks to their inner self when he says: “Do not say in your heart: ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” It is as though he were saying: The ungodly does not believe that Christ ascended into heaven; he leads Christ down from heaven, since he does not believe that the faith which fulfills the Law is granted through His resurrection."
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