Main news for 28 June 2019

These words of the apostle are very widely known. The apostle juxtaposes the Old and the New Testament, and the letter countered in this case as symbol of the law written in the Old Testament. Why the apostle asserts that the written law is a murderous thing? And what if the law was right and just? Literally, the legislation of the Old Testament contains good, necessary and right laws.

But, being already written, the law becomes in a way an objective reality separated from the executor, and quite as from the most important, the legislator. It is not because no written law can exhaust all the varieties of the real life, although it is evident.

But it’s a faceless thing, controlling the life of those that God endowed the image and the resemblance of His personality, and that is why there is a humiliation of this image. It is not accidentally that on the eve of the time of the New Testament, arise in Israel a representation on the Divine Wisdom - it is the personification of the law, composing its living sense, its spirit.

Words on Wisdom in the Bible turn out to be prophecies about Christ, because they reflect God’s will to become directly the Master of His Kingdom On the contrary, the everlasting Spirit of the New Testament gives the possibility to its participants not to be under the influence of tables of stones, but under the influence of the very Legislator.

It doesn’t mean at all, let’s say, that the moral requirements demanded to them were different from those of the participants of the Sinai covenant. "I am not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill" says the Lord Himself. But it is not these requirements which make the main part of the human life. Their execution becomes a function, a demonstration of a personal relationship with the Legislator.

After the words about the murderous letter and the vivifying Spirit, the apostle speaks in detail about the glory of the Old and the New Testament. Regrettably, our sad history considerably distorted the understanding of this word that is why this word needs explanation. It is not about what imply slogans. We remember glory of the kings and masters of the earth.

Our brothers-Christians in Ancient Rome called it very exactly "pompa diaboli". The biblical sense of the word "glory" (from Greek. Doxa, from Latin gloria) is most deeply shown in the vision of Esaïe: "the glory of the Lord has filled the temple".

It is the form of such presence of God, when the man knows and blesses this presence. And it is in particular why the plenitude of such a glory in the New Testament turns out qualitatively superior to the letters of the law of the Old Testament.