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.
What is a \"wind of doctrine\"?
24. In what prayer for those who crucified Him did Christ manifest the true spirit of the gospel-love for sinner?
Why did God confide in Abraham, and commit sacred trusts to him?
What, through the prophet Isaiah, does the Lord call the Sabbath?
Was the Sabbath \"made\"?
24. What psalms seem to have been written especially for the comfort and encouragement of God's people during the time of the seven last plagues?
Are God's people free from affliction?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle