 | Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor - 1837 - 428 pages
...will not lead us beyond the bounds prescribed. Our Saviour in the 5th chapter of St. Matthew tells us, that he came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them. What his meaning was, he sufficiently explained in the following part of his sermon on the mount ;... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 pages
...render this exceedingly probable. In a passage, therefore, of high doctrinal importance, he declared that he " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil." His coming had not a negative, but a positive end ; he came not to make of none effect, but to complete.... | |
 | James M. Davis - 1837 - 308 pages
...skies, and gave to Moses on Mount Sinai — that law which the Son of God alluded to when he said, I came not to destroy the law and the prophets* but to fulfil them — that law, the divine summary of which is, " thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pages
...worthy of God. It retaineth all the excellencies of the Old Testament revelation ; for our Saviour came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, and carry the scheme of religion there laid down to a still higher degree of excellence. The idea given... | |
 | Charles Thomas Longley (abp. of Canterbury.), Benjamin Langwith Hargrave - 1838 - 94 pages
...something of the " Glory which He had with the Father before the world was :" it was designed to shew also that He came " not to destroy the Law and the prophets, but to fulfil them;" for the presence of Moses and Elias on this occasion, the former the Lawgiver, and the latter the zealous... | |
 | 1842 - 268 pages
...with dishonour both to God and His Christ, who expressly affirms the opposite of this sentiment, viz : that He " came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil" — (Matt. v. 17 — 20). Now the law here meant is, that law which forbids covetousness, and every... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...from Judaism, because it was the completion of that system which in Judaism had been begun. Christ came, " not " to destroy the Law and the prophets, but to fulfil them."* Hence the moral precepts of the Old Testament were preserved and perfected in the New ; the rites and... | |
 | 1840 - 694 pages
...as " of his fulness we all receive." " 6th. Christ fulfilled the law, and then abrogated it." Christ came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them, which he did by epitomizing the sacrifices, as he did the moral law, when he said, " He that loves... | |
 | Edward Bather - 1840 - 586 pages
...admiring, or acknowledging Him, of whom those oracles of God which they had in their hands did speak. When he came " not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfil," and by " fulfilling all righteousness" to save their souls : he had " no form nor comeliness" in their... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 276 pages
...although 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 a rule... | |
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