What did Jesus say of His attitude toward the law?
Answer
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Matt.
5: 17.
NOTE-The word "fulfil" as here used is taken by many to mean that Christ brought the law to an
end. But the meaning of the word varies according to its usage, as is evident from the definition in the
Concise Oxford Dictionary: "Fulfil. Bring to consummation, carry out, (prophecy, promise) satisfy (desire,
prayer) perform, execute, do, (command, law) ; answer (purpose) comply with (conditions) bring to an end,
finish, complete, (period, work)."
In the sermon on the mount, so far from abolishing the law, Christ set forth its eternal,
unchangeable character, and the deep spirituality of its requirements, entering as they do into the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
For what is all Scripture profitable?
What did the Lord command Abraham to do?
How is the church at the first advent described?
How does this association regard the Catholic Church on this point?
Have we reached the time when there is \"distress of nations, with perplexity\"?
1. According to the words of the angel to Daniel, when might the world look for an increase of knowledge?
How must one ask in order to receive?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle