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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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    John Calvin
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    Romans 4:13-25, Matthew 5:17, Galatians 5:14, James 2:17-22, Romans 3:31
    We do not therefore by faith make void the law, but rather establish it.

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

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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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    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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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Psalm 82:3-4, Romans 13:1-4, Matthew 22:39, Zechariah 7:9-10, Amos 5:24, Proverbs 31:8-9, Isaiah 1:17
    It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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

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    C. S. Lewis
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    You cannot make men good by law.

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    Payton March
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    There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave the most in life— happiness, freedom, and peace of mind— are always obtained by giving them to someone else.

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    Stephen Hawking
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    A scientific law is not a scientific law if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

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    Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight
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    Once upon a time Pennsylvania had a law that no inning of baseball for the Phillies or the Pirates could begin after 6pm on Sunday because on Sunday night you went to church. In St. Louis and other lo...

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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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    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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    Immanuel Kant
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    Psalm 19:1-2, Romans 1:19-20, Psalm 8:3-4, Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10
    Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the Moral Law within.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Richard Dawkins
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    Events that we commonly call miracles are not supernatural, but are part of a spectrum of more-or-less improbable natural events. A miracle, in other words, if it occurs at all, is a tremendous stroke...

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    Theodore Roosevelt
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    The cornerstone of this Republic, as of all free government, is respect for and obedience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whether by rich man or poor man, by black man or w...

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    John R. W. Stott
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    Matthew 5:null
    More simply, as both the Reformers and the Puritans used to summarize it, the law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us back to the law to be sanctified.

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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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    Winston S. Churchill
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    Matthew 23:23-24, Mark 7:6-9, Matthew 12:1-8
    If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville
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    Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

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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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    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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