THE LAW | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 1, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 22.

THE LAW.

Law is in the nature of God from all eternity, and is the instrument of his government. It was inscribed on the nature of man when he was created; it was graven by God's own finger on the granite blocks of Sinai; it was spoken in gentle and attractive tones by our Lord in the sermon on the mount, and it is written by God's own Spirit as a new commandment on the hearts of God's people. It goes with a man wherever he goes, to tell him, if he is prepared to listen to it, what is right and what is wrong, and in the end to punish him if he refuses to obey. That law has been broken, but it is still binding. When Moses came down from the mount with the two tables, he threw them from him and broke them when he witnessed the wickedness of the children of Israel. But he had just to re-ascend to the mount and have them written again by God's own finger, which thing may be unto us for an allegory. Man has broken God's law; but that law retains all it claims, and ever renews them. The law is embodied in the gospel. Christ came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill. The gospel, wherever it goes, carries within it the law fulfilled by Christ, the law still binding on his followers.—Sel.