§ 2. THE PENTATEUCH, OR THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES—THE TORAH. ORGANIC UNITY AND ARRANGEMENT The Hebrew Thorah (i. e., doctrine, especially doctrine of the law,—law), or the record of the covenant religion of the Old Testament (ἡ παλαιὰ διαθήκη), 2 Cor. 3:14; διαθήκη=בְּרִית), has its real principle not so much in the Mosaic law as in the Abrahamic covenant of faith as effected by the first preparation of the kingdom of God in the creation of the world and of man (see Rom. 4:1,
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