To Florus 3.16

Anyone determined to oppose this pronouncement, then, should assert that both things happen, when both were equally forbidden. For it is easier to reject God’s law than to correct it. Rejection is irreverent, but correction is still more irreverent and absurd. If you honor one of its two decrees and detest the other, the part you accept will force you, against your will, to obey the part you reject. The dignity of the one you value also defends the one you opposed. It is completely absurd to imagine you honor commands when you dare attack part of them. Thus rejecting the whole law is more consistent than correcting it. Yet only an impious person will attempt to correct it; devout and sensible people accept and praise it in its entirety.

No one should be troubled here by seeing that the old sacrificial rites ceased in the age of the New Testament. Virtues and sacrificial victims are not governed by the same principle: commands are enduring; sacrifices are temporary. Yet when Christ came, whom the ancient sacrifices foreshadowed, what had been established was fulfilled, not condemned. Those observances are not denounced as having been practiced in their proper times; they came to rest when the perfection promised through their service arrived.