...LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil : he - shows what was the true fulfilment, when he repeats the two commandments on which " hang all...

...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 presupposes that he is himself the Messiah, to whom was ascribed authority...

...was produced in the Synagogue, for Christianity is not and cannot be severed from Judaism. Oar Lord came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil. Christian history is recorded in the Old Testament as well as in the New. We know also that modern...

...most ancient tradition of his people, and spoke a literal and a splendid truth, when he said that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. What he destroyed was the limitation of the hope ; what he came to fulfil was the hope. He too...

...relationships of life. The Levitical law— given to God's " peculiar people," the Jews, and continued by Him who "came not to destroy the law and the prophets," but to fulfil them, and " to purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works," — to that "chosen seed"...

...instances are less frequent in the New Testament, but why ? Clearly, because the Messiah, as He declares, came ' not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil ;' and, because, as Paul says, ' All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for...

...Immanuel's righteousness, who certainly understood the purport of his incarnation, and who said, " I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them." We are not justified by our personal acts, but by the mediatorial acts of Christ, which were...

...Lord himself, it is a type of the Divine relationship subsisting between God and the church.* Our Lord came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil; and in his teaching, the law of marriage, which had been greatly violated by the Jews, was restored...

...is the scripture fulfilled in your hearing. I came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, yea, to establish the law on its original basis of eternal truth. I came not to teach sedition...

...purpose for which it was formed by nature. And in like manner, Jesus Christ, as He himself tells, " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them." That which was promised by the prophets was performed in the Gospel; it has the reality of those...