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    Earl Palmer
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    The Torah, I shall argue that it is a statement of community ethos, a definitional statement of the character of the community which is a given and is not negotiable among the new generation”

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    Andre Neher
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    Psalm 1:, Psalm 119:
    The Hebrew word Torah does not signify order but orientation. It is not a law, it is the way, the road along which a common enterprise is possible.

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    William Cowper
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    To see the Law by Christ fulfilled And hear His pardoning voice, Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.

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    Jack Finegan
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    There are interesting similarities between the Code of Hammurabi and the case laws given in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. But there is a sharp contrast between the Code of Hammurabi and the Comm...

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    One of the reasons why I think Christians get tired of hearing about the law is because they never hear why they should obey the law.

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    Kline R. Snodgrass
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    Matthew 13:, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15
    Rabbis spoke of parables as handles for understanding Torah; before parables no one understood the Torah, but when Solomon and others created parables, then people understood.

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    N. T. Wright
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    "Righteousness," within the lawcourt setting-and this is something that no good Lutheran or Reformed theologian ought ever to object to-denotes the status that someone has when the court has...

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    David Flusser
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    Luke 2:46-47, Psalm 119:105, John 15:10, Matthew 4:1-11, Philippians 2:8, James 1:22
    It is easy to observe that Jesus was far from uneducated. He was perfectly at home both in holy scripture and in oral tradition, and he knew how to apply this scholarly heritage.

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    Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come to trust in them merely by repeating them, without paying any...

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    Eduard Lohse
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    John 1:38, Matthew 7:28-29, Luke 24:27, John 3:1-21, Matthew 5:17
    When Jesus is called Rabbi by His disciples and others, this shows that He conducted Himself like the Jewish scribes.

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    Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Psalm 72:12-14, Zechariah 7:9-10, Ezekiel 34:16, Proverbs 31:8-9, Micah 6:8, Leviticus 19:9-10
    Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and de...

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    H. W. Robinson
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    James 1:22, Matthew 26:36-46, Genesis 22:1-19, Romans 12:1-2, John 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:22, Deuteronomy 6:4-5
    This is salvation in the deeper and more spiritual sense of the Old Testament. . . . But even in the religion of the Law, . . . obedience to the revealed will of Yahweh is recognized as the supreme en...

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    Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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    Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the ...

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    W. R. Smith
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    The ideas of right and wrong among the Hebrews are forensic ideas; that is, the Hebrew always thinks of the right and the wrong as if they were to be settled before a judge. Righteousness is to the He...

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    Hammurabi
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    Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.

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    Martin Luther
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    A unjust law, is no law at all.

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    Charlotte Brontë
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    Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break ...

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    Lois Barrett
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    Matthew 5:9, James 3:18, Romans 14:17, Jeremiah 22:3, Zechariah 8:16-17, Isaiah 9:6-7, Isaiah 32:17
    Shalom envisions the full prosperity of a people of God living under the covenant of God’s demanding care and compassionate rule. In the prophetic vision, peace such as this comes hand in hand with ju...

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    Ovid
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    The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong from always getting their way.

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    Jen Wilkin
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    Zephaniah 3:5, Micah 6:8, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 33:5, Jeremiah 9:24, Isaiah 61:8, Psalm 89:14
    The Scriptures find the justice of God a virtue to be extolled, not a blemish to be concealed.

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    Johannes Kepler
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    Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts… and if piety allow us to say so, our u...

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    Woodrow Kroll
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    Rest is a matter of wisdom, not law.

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    Craig Blomberg
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    2 Timothy 3:16
    Every command [from the Old Testament] reflects principles at some level that are binding on Christians (2 Timothy 3:16)

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    Jonathan Swift
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    Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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    John Stott
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    What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'

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    A.W. Pink
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    The Lord’s commands are rarely accompanied with reasons but they are always accompanied with promises, either expressed or understood.

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    Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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    The webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight is what the Hebrew prophets call shalom. We call it peace, but it means far more than mere peace of mind or a...

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    Ellen F. Davis
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    Genesis 3:17, Deuteronomy 11:11-17, Deuteronomy 28:24, Isaiah 16:8, Hosea 4:3
    Overall, from a biblical perspective, the sustained fertility and habitability of the earth, or more particularly of the land of Israel, is the best index of the health of the covenant relationship. W...

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    John Selden
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    Zechariah 7:9-10, Micah 6:8, Romans 2:14-15, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 37:28, Isaiah 33:22, Leviticus 19:15
    Equity in law is the same that the spirit is in religion, what everyone pleases to make it: sometimes they go according to conscience, sometimes according to law, sometimes according to the rule of co...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
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