DLord 8 - The Lord Fulfilled Everything in the Word

DLord 8

Many people today believe that,
when it is said of the Lord that He fulfilled the Law,
it means that He fulfilled
all the commandments of the Decalogue,
and that in so doing
He became righteousness
and at the same time justified people in the world
by that belief.

Nevertheless, that is not the meaning.
Rather the meaning is that He fulfilled everything
written about Him in the Law and the Prophets,
that is, throughout Holy Scripture,
because it has Him alone as its subject,
as we said in the previous section.

The reason many people have believed otherwise
is that they have not searched the scriptures
and seen what is meant by the Law there.

In a strict sense the Law there means
the ten commandments of the Decalogue.
In a broader sense it means
everything written by Moses in his five books.
And in the broadest sense it means
the whole of the Word.