THE LAW AND GOSPEL by Krummacher

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 28, 1862

THE LAW AND GOSPEL.

By Krummacher

HERE also [in the transfiguration] is a striking representation of the perfect harmony and unity between the economy of the Old Testament and that of the New. Moses appears as the representative of the law; Elias as the representative of the prophets. As such they humbly and adoringly draw near to Jesus. The law and the prophets give witness to the Son of Mary. Such is the important meaning which we behold in this scene. "Judah, indeed thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise." "Thou art he," exclaims the law, "unto whom I as a schoolmaster would bring every man." "Thou art he," say the prophets, "who wast the burden of our inspired song." And when both Moses and Elias disappear in the radiance of the "fairest of the children of men," that great truth stands embodied before us, that Christ is the end of the law as well as of prophecy. Prophecy finds in him its fulfillment, for he is the substance of all the shadows. The law ceases from all its judgments, threatenings, and condemnations, as soon as it finds the sinner in Christ. . . . The terrors of the law no longer appal him, and yet he now learns to keep the law universally, and more steadfastly than ever.—Krummacher.