Excerpt from Christ the Spirit, Vol. 2: Being an Attempt to State the Primitive View of ChristianityThis Section exhibits the estimation in which the Law was held by the Jew, as shown from the Old Testament. The Law was called the Law of God, &c., , page 21. It was called the Word, 22. The Law scarcely distinguished from God, and was called the Lord, referring to its Spirit, 22. The knowledge of God and of the Law, one thing to a Jew, 22. The secret of the Lord was the secret of the Law, 23. The Truth, or Spirit, of the Law, was the Holy One of Israel, 28. Order of Ideas, 23. God, as the Lord, and as the Holy One of Israel, is the Lord of the New Testament, and the Father of the written Law, 24. Why Christ is the Son of God and the Son of man, 24. How the knowledge of the secret of the Law was to be obtained, 24. Exam ples from Scripture, to show the exalted character of the Law, 24. David's address to Solomon, 24. Ecclesiastes, 25. The necessity of obedience expressed in various ways, 26. The Law is the key-note of the Psalms, proved, with remarks, 26 - 30. A parallel in the gospel, 30. 'vvisdom, 31. The Law is the mystical centre of the Prophecies, with remarks, 32 - 34. The expression, going over, 34. The im portance of the Law shown from the Apocryphal writings, with re marks, 35 - 40. The Saviour was the Law, 40. The end or object of the Law, 41. The Jew attributed good and evil to the Law, 42. The promises and threatenings of the Law, 43, 44. The Law of Nature the true Law, on which the Law of Moses was founded, 44.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.