...which I have mentioned, says, ' On these two hang all the law and the prophets.' If, then, he came i not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, it was certainly no part of the end of his mission to destrov in any degree the two commands on which...

...attributing these doctrines, we may say SANCTIONS, unto their law. He came, in fact, as He always asserted, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; and in every page throughout the four Gospels, wheresoever a - future state is insisted upon, it...

...earth, gave his sanction to the ancient inspired •writings, by quoting from them, and by declaring that he " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." When in the upper sanctuary again, he sent the Spirit of Truth upon evangelists and apostles in copious...

...apostle refers rather to the Mosaic law, the Gospel of Christ being engrafted on the law ; for Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, (see James ii. 33.) The ritual law he fulfilled by his sacrifice and death, and the effects resulting...

...necessities of mankind. They retain all that is excellent in the Old Testament revelation : for Christ came, not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and to carry the scheme of religion there laid down to a still higher degree of excellency. Accordingly,...

...apostle refers rather to the Mosaic law, the Gospel of Christ being engrafted on the law ; for Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, (see James ii. 23.) The ritual law he fulfilled by his sacrifice and death, and the effects resulting...

...For though none delighted more than he in preaching Christ and gospel-grace ; yet he knew that Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil ; and that, though, through grace, we are not under the law, as a covenant ; yet we are under it as...

...prejudices of the Jew. Moreover, the religion of the New Testament is founded on that of the Old. Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; not to repeal, but to establish them with higher sanctions and more powerful motives. Hence, the...

...the tradition of the fathers. He explained to the Jews the nature of his office, as the sent of God, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. He taught the church by his doctrines that he was the Son of God, and confirmed his doctrines by miracles....

...all the scriptures which my opponent would urge, in support of Jesus' being essentially God. Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them ; the law is as far fulfilled, in the soul, as it is brought to love God, in his adorable image, Jesus...