Think not that I am come, &c.] This is a preface to the following exposition of the law, wherein our Saviour prevents their misconstruction of it. They, hearing the law otherwise expounded then their teachers used to do, v. 21, 22. might think that Christ did abrogate the morall law, and bring in a new one. He warns them beforehand not to think so. to destroy the law] Gr. to dissolve. As men destroy an hous by pulling the parts asunder. Christ came not to destroy the law, either by his doctrine, freeing men from obedience to it, John 5:18. and John 10:35. Galatians 1:3. and Galatians 2:18. or by his practice, in disobeying it, v. 19. or the prophets] The interpreters of it. I give no other morall precepts then Moses did, nor any other interpretations of that lw then the prophets gave. ut to fulfill] Both by instruction, observation, and full satisfaction, Romans 3:31. and Romans 8:3. Others take it, of fulfilling the ceremonies, types and predictions of the Messias in his own person. But the former interpretation agrees best with the words before and after.