Monday, June 18, 2007

Law and Love

(A) shared view of the relationship between love and law between the Old and New Testaments represents a major instance of continuity with respect to love and law between the testaments. However, in addition, in this case continuity should not be thought of as perfect symmetry for the NT gives love the priority (cf Rom 13:8, Gal 5:13) while it may reasonably be said that because the OT puts the love of neighbor in a legal context, it gives the system of law the priority...

- Richard Allbee, JSOT, 31.2 (2006)

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