Note, however, that Ross does not cite Augustine as someone who supported that later tripartite division. A number of writers, including me, have asserted that the unambiguous tripartite division of the law—moral, civil, ceremonial—as a fundamental ordering principle for establishing patterns of continuity and discontinuity between the Testaments is nowhere clearly delineated before Thomas Aquinas. Despite his best effort to insist that the tripartite division is “catholic doctrine” from the beginning,