True Christian Religion # 288
288. The law is frequently mentioned in the Word. I must state what the law means in the strict sense, what in a wider sense, and what in the widest sense. In the strict sense the law means the Ten Commandments; in a wider sense the rules given by Moses to the Children of Israel, and in the widest sense the whole Word.
It is well known that the law in the strict sense means the Ten Commandments. The law in a wider sense means the rules given by Moses to the Children of Israel, as is evident from the individual rules in Leviticus each being called a law:
This is the law of the sacrifice, Leviticus 7:1.
This is the law of the sacrifice for making one's peace, Leviticus 7:7, 11.
This is the law of the grain-offering, Leviticus 6:14ff
This is the law of the burnt-offering, the grain-offering, the sin-sacrifice and the guilt-sacrifice, and the completions, Leviticus 7:37.
This is the law of beast and bird, Leviticus 11:46-47.
This is the law of the woman who gives birth to a son or a daughter, Leviticus 12:7.
This is the law of leprosy, Leviticus 13:59; 14:2, 32, 54, 57 This is the law of the person with a discharge, Leviticus 15:32.
This is the law of jealousy, Numbers 5:29-30.
This is the law of the Nazirite, Numbers 6:13, 21.
This is the law of cleansing, Numbers 19:14.
This is the law concerning the red cow, Numbers 19:2.
The law for the king, Deuteronomy 17:15-19.
In fact the whole book of Moses 1 is called the law (Deuteronomy 31:9, 11-12, 26; also in the New Testament, as Luke 2:22; 24:44; John 1:45; 7:22-23; 8:5; and elsewhere).
[2] The context plainly shows that these rules were what Paul meant by 'the deeds prescribed by the law', when he says that man is justified by faith without the deeds prescribed by the law (Romans 3:28). The same is shown by his words to Peter, whom he criticised for behaving like the Jews, when he says three times in one verse that no one is justified by the deeds prescribed by the law (Galatians 2:14, 16).
The law in its widest sense means the whole of the Word, as is plain from these passages:
Jesus said, Is it not written in your law, you are gods? John 10:34.
This is said in Psalms 82:6.
The crowd answered, We have heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever, John 12:34.
This is said in Psalms 89:29; Psalms 110:4; Daniel 7:14.
That the word should be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me without cause. John
This is said in Psalms 35:19.
The Pharisees said, Have any of the princes believed in him? But the crowd which does not know the law.... John 7:48-49.
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to fall out, Luke 16:17.
The law in these passages means the whole of Holy Scripture; and there are a thousand further passages in the Psalms of David.
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1. I.e. the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy).
Numbers 6
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
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he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.
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All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
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"'All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
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"'All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.
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He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head.
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All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
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"'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
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On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.
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He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
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"'This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
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and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
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and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
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The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.
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He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.
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The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
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The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;
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and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
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"'This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation.'"
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.' You shall tell them,
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'Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
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Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.
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Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.'
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"So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them."
