12 TOHU-VA-VOHU
in the lives of even such men as Abraham, Moses,
St. John and St. Paul, where sometimes thirty or
forty years are scarcely filled by one sentence.
. Theologians have what seems to me a very
erroneous manner of speaking about the Law, which
must have come to them from the system known as
the ‘ Federal Theology.” We are told that all men
are under the Law, by which is meant the Law of
Moses. On inquiring more particulars, you are then
told that only that portion of it 1s meant which is
called the Moral Law, and is contained in the Ten
Commandments. But, granting the distinction for
the sake of argument, the statement is not true. The
nations could not be under a Law of which they were
ignorant, and which was destined for Israel alone.
Nor does St. Paul in Rom. 1. and ii., or in any other
passage, ever hint such a relationship. Light is
thrown on the subject by our Lord’s summary of the
Law as perfect love to God, and love to our neighbour
equal to that for ourselves. Under this law, whether
graven on the conscience or more clearly spoken in
the ‘ten words,’ all men are—and the breach of this
law must carry death: indeed, it ts death. The
Gentiles are only under the Law of Moses in so far as
it is the fullest expression of the Law of Nature.