Further reading of the Tyndale New Testament Commentaries has been on the subject of Jesus fulfilling the law and the relationship between the law and the new covenant.
The conclusion I draw is that we must read the law of the Old Testament through the lens of the principle of love as stated by Jesus. Using this methodology renders, for Christians, rules and regulations contradictory to the Great Commandents, either explicitly or implicitly, redundant or overuled. Sadly bible literalists and fundamentalists eschew this approach on a selective basis. They place legalism, sometimes Pharisitical in zealous application, before the all-embracing principle of love.
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