Grant R. Osborne Quote
Jesus said, Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them (Mt 5:17). Yet Paul could say, Christ is the end of the law (Rom 10:4); you also died to the law through the body of Christ (Rom 7:4); and Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law (Gal 3:25). Hebrews states, By calling this covenant ‘new,’ he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear (Heb 8:13), and The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming (Heb 10:1). The Matthew text is the key one, for Jesus is asserting that the Torah has not been abrogated and in fact is intact in him.
Jesus said, Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them (Mt 5:17). Yet Paul could say, Christ is the end of the law (Rom 10:4); you also died to the law through the body of Christ (Rom 7:4); and Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law (Gal 3:25). Hebrews states, By calling this covenant ‘new,’ he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear (Heb 8:13), and The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming (Heb 10:1). The Matthew text is the key one, for Jesus is asserting that the Torah has not been abrogated and in fact is intact in him.
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