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The Two Laws Compared

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 16, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 21.

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The Two Laws Compared.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

ONE was spoken by God, Deut. iv, 12; the other, by Moses, Deut. i, 1–6. One was written by God on stone, Ex. xxxi, 18; the other, by Moses in a book, Deut. xxxi, 24. One was put into the ark, Deut. x, 5; the other into the side of the ark, Deut. xxxi, 26. One was “right,” “true,” and “good,” Neh. ix, 18; the other was “not good.” Eze. xx, 25. One was a law “which if a man do, he shall even live in it,” Eze. xx, 11; the other was one “whereby they should not live,” Eze. xx, 25. One was “perfect,” Ps. xix, 7; the other “made nothing perfect.” Heb. vii, 19. One, Christ did not “come to destroy,” Matt. v, 17; the other he “abolished.” Eph. ii, 15. “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from” one, Matt. v, 18; the other passed away when the seed came. Gal. iii, 19. Of one Christ said, “Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, shall be called least in the kingdom of Heaven,” Matt. v, 19; of the other the apostle said, “we gave no such commandment,” that ye should “keep the law,” Acts xv, 24. One was “the law of liberty,” Jas. ii, 12; the other a yoke of bondage, Gal. v, 1. One Paul delighted in, Rom. vii, 22; the other was “a yoke” which neither the fathers nor he could bear. Acts xv, 10. One is established by faith, Rom. iii, 31; the other “abolished” by Christ. Eph. ii, 15. One is “spiritual,” Rom. vii, 14; the other carnal. Heb. vii, 16. One “is holy, just, and good, Rom. vii, 12; the other is the law of “enmity,” “against us, and contrary to us,” Eph. ii, 15; Col. ii, 14. One was “the handwriting of ordinances,” Col. ii, 14; the other “the royal law,” Jas. ii, 8. One was “a wall of partition” between the Jews and Gentiles, Eph. ii, 15; while the works of the other are written in the hearts of the Gentiles. Rom. ii, 14. One was “ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator,” Gal. iii, 15; the other, spoken by Jehovah, Deut. iv, 12. One stood only “in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances. Heb. ix, 10; the other contained “the whole duty of man.” Eccl. xii, 17.
D. M. CANRIGHT.