“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy them, but to fulfill them” (v. 17). In this verse, and the rest which follow, to the end of this chapter, is contained the third part of Christ’s sermon, wherein He goes about to restore the moral law to its true sense and meaning, which was much corrupted by the Jewish teachers. And to the end the same might be the better accepted, He makes way thereto by a notable
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