Mount is “law” just as much as the Ten Commandments. But the New Testament use of the word “law” (nomos) is decisively conditioned by the Old Testament background and the Jewish milieu in which it was written. The word therefore almost always denotes not “law” in general, but the Mosaic law, the Torah (tôrâ).4 As a result, the New Testament Law-“Gospel”5 tension is not, as in Luther, primarily static and theological, but historical. “Law” (tôrâ) came into history at a specific point in time (430