way.’ As a designation for the totality of Scripture, “law” pictures God’s Word as showing His way to men. Therefore, here and in other places (e.g. throughout Psalm 119), it is better to translate this term by such English words as “instruction,” “teaching,” or “direction.” And what does this inscripturated divine direction for man’s life accomplish? It has the innate ability to “turn” or “return” an individual. The term “soul” in scriptural context virtually never designates merely the metaphysical
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