“An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.”
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. The teacher (didaskalos) instructs the foolish (notos) and immature (nēpios), believing the law itself to be the embodied form (morphōsis) of knowledge and truth. The law's moral perfection is genuine, yet it cannot perfect the one who fails to obey it.
Church Fathers on Romans 2:20
“An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and truth, which is in the Law.” Here again he says not, in the conscience and in actions and in well-doings, but “in the Law;” and after saying so, he does here also what he did with regard to the Gentiles. For as there he says, “for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself,” so says he here also.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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