...faith, is established by it." In the words preceding the text, our blessed Lord had said, that " he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them : and in the words before us, he teaches us to infer from thence the undiminished authority of...

...strict than the Law itself. It was in this sense, doubtless, that Jesus said of himself, that " he came not to destroy 'the Law and the prophets, but to fulfil," and to produce a practical righteousness more thorough and spiritual than Judaism had ever exhibited,...

...displayed an equal indifference to the warnings and promises of prophecy; and at length rejected Him who came, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. Moses and Elias had both borne witness to Christ, as their fulfilment; but the Jews, with a blindness...

...Jesus Christ, the Son of God, uniformly recognises the authority of the Old Testament as supreme. " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil" " It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail" " And beginning at...

...the Jews, and we are Christians." The answer is not difficult. Christ our lawgiver tells us that He " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." And He adds, " Whosoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven/' The...

...v. 17 ff. follows the transition to the main subject of the sermon ; the assurance of Jesus that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil, &c. Now as Jesus herein plainly * Schneckenburger, Beiträge, S. 58. Neander tries to show, теry...

...assertion, let us look, in the first place, at the conduct of our Lord Himself. He positively declares He " came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them." The ancient Law, however, not only allowed and provided for, but absolutely required, the membership...

...The Law is the Gospel in bud ; the Gospel is the flower fully expanded by the Sun of Righteousness, who " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil."— ED. * We may cite here the exordium of SAUUIN'S sermon on The Song of Simeon. and the peroration of...

...ripened fruit which the simple Mosaic precept produces for our use in the new dispensation ; for Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. In the lips of Jesus the lesson attained its fullest dimensions and divinest form. Paul, delighting...

...(as the Apostle saith) " love is the fulfilling of the law." And we must needs admit and conclude, that He, who "came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil," taught consistently with His office when He said, " He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My sayings,"...