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1 1pref| set up to vindicate Cows Law as his own was of the Gentiles, 2 1pref| of primary favour in the Law, whereas ours is understood 3 2 | II. THE LAW ANTERIOR TO MOSES.~Stand 4 2 | believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, 5 2 | all nations the selfsame law, which at definite and stated 6 2 | to Adam himself and Eve a law, that they were not to eat 7 2 | they were to die. Which law had continued enough for 8 2 | it been kept. For in this law given to Adam we recognise 9 2 | covet. For the primordial law was given to Adam and Eve 10 2 | this general and primordial law of God, the observance of 11 2 | specially of the posterior Law, which germinated when disclosed 12 2 | subsequent superinduction of a law is the work of the same 13 2 | begins? In short, before the Law of Moses, written in stone-tables, 14 2 | contend that there was a law unwritten, which was habitually 15 2 | righteousness of a natural law had not preceded? Whence 16 2 | observance) of a natural law? Whence was Melchizedek 17 2 | priesthood of the Levitical law, there were not levites 18 2 | above-mentioned patriarchs, was the Law given to Moses, at that ( 19 2 | and thirty years" that the Law was given. Whence we understand 20 2 | we understand that God's law was anterior even to Moses, 21 2 | not to give heed to Moses' Law as to the primitive law, 22 2 | Law as to the primitive law, but as to a subsequent, 23 2 | pass that, just as "the law was given through Moses" 24 2 | God has, which reforms the law's precepts answerably to 25 2 | without the burden of the law of Moses, please God. Melchizedek 26 2 | without observance of the law, that he was freed from 27 3 | SUPERCESSION OF THE OLD LAW.~But Abraham, (you say,) 28 3 | and rounded, as it were, a law for keeping this precept. 29 3 | coming procession of a new law (not such as He had already 30 3 | coming procession of a new law out of this "house of the 31 3 | from Zion shall go out a law, and the word of the Lord 32 3 | fully taught by the new law, observe these practices,-- 33 3 | these practices,--the old law being obliterated, the coming 34 3 | For the wont of the old law was to avenge itself by 35 3 | for injury. But the new law's wont was to point to clemency, 36 3 | the rivals and foes of the law into the pacific actions 37 3 | coming cessation of the old law and of the carnal circumcision 38 3 | the observance of the new law and the spiritual circumcision 39 3 | people, by accepting the new law above mentioned, and the 40 4 | circumcision and of the old law is demonstrated as having 41 4 | priesthood received the law of the sabbath. But the 42 4 | foreign foes, and recalled the law of their fathers to the 43 4 | I think it was any other law which they thus vindicated, 44 4 | formerly gave them such a law.~ 45 5 | short, when the sacerdotal law was being drawn up, through 46 6 | THE ABOLISHER OF THE OLD LAW.~Therefore, since it is 47 6 | spiritual pre-indicated; a law temporal and a law eternal 48 6 | pre-indicated; a law temporal and a law eternal formally declared; 49 6 | precepts of the ancient Law and of the old ceremonies 50 6 | and the promise of the new law, and the recognition of 51 6 | have premised that a new law was predicted by the prophets, 52 6 | one hand, that that old Law has ceased, and on the other, 53 6 | other, that the promised new law is now in operation.~And, 54 6 | expected a giver of the new law, and an heir of the new 55 6 | sabbath, to suppress the old law, and institute the new testament, 56 6 | whether this giver of the new law, observer of the spiritual 57 6 | be manifest that the old Law's precepts are suppressed, 58 6 | the beginnings of the new law ought to arise. And, primarily, 59 6 | it down that the ancient Law and the prophets could not 60 6 | announced, through the same Law and through the same prophets, 61 7 | likewise believe that the new law has by Him been given, and 62 8 | the evangelist write, "The law and the prophets (were) 63 9 | Testaments of the ancient law and the new law; sharpened 64 9 | ancient law and the new law; sharpened by the equity 65 9 | that is, not through the Law's discipline), but through 66 9 | that is, through the new law's grace), after our circumcision 67 13 | He be anointed? For the Law enjoined that, in captivity, 68 13 | grace being withdrawn, "the law and the prophets were until