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between human beings; rights to some than
to others. Thus, they were not ye.t moral because they
failed of moral universality. They ,belonged to cultures
that had not yet emerged from the Stage of many gods
and many different truths: one truth for the highborn,
another for the lowborn. The Decalogue was the first
statement of the oneness of all who. are human: oneness
in rights and oneness in obligations.,’.‘,. The Decalogue is
God’s Mandate to Humanity: to prince,- scholar, commoner,
rich man, and pauper alike. (See. also Rom. 3:20, Eccl.
12:13, Prov. 14:34, Psa. 111:10, Amos.5:11, Mic. 6:8, Isa.
1:15-17, Jer. 25:5-6, etc.) I
4. The fact of the indaequacyl.of law to save people
from their sins. (See Rorn, 7:7-8, 8;3; Heb. lO:l, 1 Cor.
15:56, John 1:17, 1 John 3:4). It is not-the function of
law to save or redeem: law serves only to distinguish right
conduct from wrong conduct. The Children of Israel
were specially called and used of God to demonstrate the
exceeding sinfulness of sin, our inability to save ourselves
through works of the moral law, and consequently the
need of every accountable human being for personal re-
generation and holiness (John 3:l-8). (Rom. 4:2, S:1;
Gal. 2:16, 3:11, etc.)
5. The development of a system of type, symbol, and
prophecy that would serve to identify the Messiah at His
coming, and to establish the divine origin of the entire
Christian System. (1 Cor, 10:11, Rom. 15:4, -Heb. lO:l,
etc.) Most of the charcters, institutions and events of
the Old Covenant were designed to be types (shadows)
of Christ and His Church. Adam, Isaac, Joseph, Moses,
Joshua, David, Jonah, etc., were all typical of Christ in
certain respects. The deliverance of Noah from the un-
godly antediluvian world, through water as the transitional
t, was typical of our deliverance from the bondage
and corruption of sin, through baptism, again the transi-
tional element through which deliverance is consummated
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