TCR 287 - 'Do this, and you will live.'

TCR 287 [2]
. . . since the first tablet of the Ten Commandments
contains in summary form the whole of love to God,
and the second tablet contains the whole of love towards the neighbor,
it follows that they contain the whole of doctrine and life.
A look at the two tablets makes it plain that they are so conjoined
that God from His tablet has mankind in view,
and mankind in his turn from his has God in view.
Thus there is a reciprocal viewing,
such that on God's part He never fails to keep mankind in view
and perform the actions needed for his salvation;
and if a person accepts and does the things laid down in his tablet,
the conjunction becomes reciprocal.
Then, as the Lord's words promised to the lawyer,
'Do this, and you will live.'