nd were
zealous of the _law_: "And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest
_all_ the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake _Moses_ and the
_customs_." xxi: 20, 21. Any person who will carefully read the eight
chapters here included, must be thoroughly convinced that the Apostle's
troubles were about the law of ceremonies written and given by Moses,
and nothing to do with the ten commandments. For you see a little before
he comes to Jerusalem, he had been preaching at Corinth every
[20]Sabbath for eighteen months. xxiii: 4, 11. And this, be it
remembered, was more than twenty years after the Jewish Sabbaths and
ceremonies were nailed to the cross.--And you see that Paul was the man
above all the Apostles to be persecuted on account of the abolition of
the Jews' law of ceremonies, for he was the "_great_ Apostle to the
Gentiles:" and if the "Sabbath of the Lord our God" was to have been
abolished when the Saviour died, Paul was the very man selected for that
purpose. It is clear, therefore, that he did not abolish the seventh day
Sabbath among the Gentiles. This same Apostle tells the Romans "that
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth." x: 4. Again, that "sin shall not have dominion over you, for
ye are not under the _law_ but under grace." vi: 14. Once more: He says
the Gentiles having not the _law_, are a _law_ unto themselves. Why?
Because, he says in the next verse, it shows the _law_ written on their
hearts. The law of ceremonies? No; that which was on tables of stone.
ii: 14-16. We might quote much more which looks like embracing the whole
law. Let us now look at a few texts in the same letter, which will draw
a distinguishing line between the two codes of laws. Paul, in the vii
ch. 9-13v. brings to view the carnal commandment, and the one unto life,
and sums up his argument in these words: "Wherefore the _law_ is holy,
and the commandment holy and just and good." In the 7v he quotes from
the decalogue. Again, he that loveth another hath fulfilled the _law_.
How? Why thou shalt not steal, nor commit adultery, nor bear false
witness, nor covet, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Therefore
_love_ is the fulfilling of the law. Rom. xiii: 8, 10.--This then is
what the Saviour taught the young man to do to secure "eternal life."
Matt. Once more, in concluding a long argument on the law in Rom. iii:
31, he closes with this language: "Do we then make void the law throug