26He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. …
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-37)We have here Christ’s discourse with a lawyer about some points of conscience, which we are all concerned to be rightly informed in and are so here from Christ though the questions were proposed with no good intention. I. We are concerned to know what that good is which we should do in this life, in order to our attaining eternal life . A question to this purport was proposed to our Saviour by a c…
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