Peter Lombard To understand things more fully, one should first seek their beginnings. For only then can one more easily give an account of the purpose of something, having first learned its origin. If, therefore, we show the manner of and reason for presenting the writing of the epistles after the Gospels, what we say seems true. We know, therefore, that in the Old Testament, after the instruction of the Mosaic Law, where the commands of divine worship used to be contained, prophetic