9. That the former law which was given by Moses was to cease.
In Isaiah: “Then shall they be manifest who seal the law, that they may not learn; and he shall say, I wait upon the Lord, who turneth away His face from the house of Jacob, and I shall trust in Him.”3862 In the Gospel also: “All the prophets and the law prophesied until John.”3863
Footnotes
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Isa. viii. 16, 17.
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Matt. xi. 13.