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Chapter 3—The Spirituality of the Law
“I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”—Matthew 5:17.
It was Christ who, amid thunder and flame, had proclaimed the
law upon Mount Sinai. The glory of God, like devouring fire, rested
upon its summit, and the mountain quaked at the presence of the Lord.
The hosts of Israel, lying prostrate upon the earth, had listened in awe
to the sacred precepts of the law. What a contrast to the scene upon
the mount of the Beatitudes! Under the summer sky, with no sound to
break the stillness but the song of birds, Jesus unfolded the principles
of His kingdom. Yet He who spoke to the people that day in accents of
love, was opening to them the principles of the law proclaimed upon
Sinai.
When the law was given, Israel, degraded by the long bondage in
Egypt, had need to be impressed with the power and majesty of God;
yet He revealed Himself to them no less as a God of love.
“The Lord came from Sinai,
And rose from Seir unto them;
He shined forth from Mount Paran,
And He came from the ten thousands of holy
ones:
At His right hand was a fiery law unto them.
Yea, He loveth the tribes;
All their holy ones are in Thy hand:
And they sat down at Thy feet;
Everyone received of Thy words.”
Deuteronomy 33:2, 3
, R.V.,
margin.
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It was to Moses that God revealed His glory in those wonderful
words that have been the treasured heritage of the ages: “The Lord,
The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in
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