The New Testament
Showing to What Extent it is Binding Under the Dispensation of Grace Bj) CHARLES C. COOK
had nothing to do with the Old Testa ment law.” Here we have the Ten Command ments as reproduced in the New Testa ment: I. None other gods. “ God is one” (Gal. 3:20). “ There is one God” (1 Tim. 2 :5). “ To us there is one God, the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 8:4-6). “ One Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all” (Eph. 4:3-6). II. Idolatry forbidden. “Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them” (1 Cor. 10:7). “ Dearly beloved, flee from idolatry” (1 Cor. 10:14). “ Keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21). III. The Name of the Lord thy God. “ But now ye also put off all these; . . . blasphemy . . .” (Col. 3 :8). “ Hallowed be thy name” (Matt. 6 :9). IV. The Sabbath. This commandment is not reproduced in the New Testament, showing that the Sabbath was (is) a Jewish insti tution (see Exodus 31:13). See how definite are the references, in the church epistles, to the believers free dom from obligation to this Jewish day: “ Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years, I am afraid of you” (Gal. 4:10-11). “ Let no man judge you . . . in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days; which are a shadow of things to come” (Col. 2:16, 17). The “ first day” of the Christian is
N that remarkable book by D. Day Adventism Renounced,” will be found on pages 346- 349 an interesting portion en titled, “ Eminent authors on the Decalogue.” We make only
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one selection: “ An incident related by Mrs. Emily C. Judson, in the Life of Adoniram Judson, by his son, Dr. Ed ward Judson. Mrs. Judson says that her husband once reproved her for in troducing some lessons from the Old Testament in her Bible classes, com paring it to groping among shadows when she might just as well have the noonday sun! Mrs. Judson, in relat ing the incident, says: ‘My impression, drawn from many a long talk, is that he considered the Old Testament as the Scriptures given to the Jews es pecially, and to them only. He did not like the distinction commonly drawn between the moral and cere monial law, and sometimes spoke with an earnestness amounting to severity, of the constant use made of the ten commandments by Christians. He thought the Old Testament very im portant as explanatory and corrobora tive of the New^—as a portion of the inspiration which came from God, etc., but binding on Christians only so far as repeated in the New Testament. He used to speak of the Mosaic law as ful filled in Crhist, and so having no fur ther power whatever; and to say that we have no right to pick out this as moral, and therefore obligatory, and the other as ceremonial and no longer demanding obedience. Practically we
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