Sublime

the context in which the law of God was given, a tracing of its story throughout the whole Bible—in a word, a biblical theological, Christocentric approach to the law—underscored that like all Gaul, God’s law is “divided into three parts”—unified indeed because divinely given, and yet multidimensional in character, function, and historical reach.

It is within this perspective that the Marrow Brethren believed that the three-dimensional character and the ongoing significance of the Decalogue were mandated not by “traditionalism,” or by “proof texting,” but by a careful biblical-theological handling of the text of the whole of Scripture.

John Barton reminds us that nowhere in the Hebrew texts themselves do they