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ages, and even to the present time, there has been a gradual unfolding
of the purposes of God in the plan of redemption. The Saviour typified
in the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish law is the very same that
is revealed in the gospel. The clouds that enveloped His divine form
have rolled back; the mists and shades have disappeared; and Jesus,
the world’s Redeemer, stands revealed. He who proclaimed the law
from Sinai, and delivered to Moses the precepts of the ritual law, is
the same that spoke the Sermon on the Mount. The great principles of
love to God, which He set forth as the foundation of the law and the
prophets, are only a reiteration of what He had spoken through Moses
to the Hebrew people: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Deuteronomy 6:4, 5
. “Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Leviticus 19:18
. The teacher is the same
in both dispensations. God’s claims are the same. The principles of
His government are the same. For all proceed from Him “with whom
is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
James 1:17
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