Luke Chapter 10, Verse 26
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26: ο δε ειπεν προς αυτον εν τω νομω τι γεγραπται πως αναγινωσκεις
26: He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest
thou?
26: But he said to him: What is written in the law? How readest thou?
What is written, &c. Jesus referred him to the law as a safe rule,
and asked him what was said there. The lawyer was doubtless endeavouring
to justify himself by obeying the law. He trusted to his own works. To
bring him off from that ground -- to make him feel that it was an unsafe
foundation, Jesus showed him what the law required, and thus showed
him that he needed a better righteousness than his own. This is the
proper use of the law. By comparing ourselves with that we see our
own defects, and are thus prepared to welcome a better righteousness
than our own that of Jesus Christ. Thus the law becomes a schoolmaster
to lead us to him, Gal 3:24
