“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. The interpretive key for the entire Sermon: Jesus came not to abolish the Law and Prophets but to fulfill them. The fulfillment is not mere compliance but the bringing of the law and prophets to their intended completion and deepest meaning. The antitheses that follow (you have heard it said... but I say to you) are not contraventions of the law but expositions of its deepest intent: the law against murder points to the anger behind it, the law against adultery points to the lust behind it. Romans 10:4 says Christ is the end (telos, goal) of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes — the law always pointed toward him, and he arrives as its fulfillment.
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