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described the righteousness which is of the law - `That the man
which doeth those things shall live by them'; in Deuteronomy
30:12-14 he is equally insistent upon the nature of the gospel
message (Rom. 10:6-10), as also are the prophets: `For the
Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be
ashamed' (verse 11).
Moses, the Psalms and Isaiah are quoted in the remainder of
Romans 10 in proof of the fact that `faith cometh by hearing',
and that the extension of the gospel to the Gentile was intended
to provoke Israel to jealousy.
Coming now to 1 Corinthians, we find the preaching of the
cross confirmed by quotations from Isaiah and Jeremiah:
`That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord'
(1 Cor. 1:31).
In l Corinthians 5 Christ is spoken of as `our Passover' and in
chapter 15 as `the Firstfruits'. Both of these terms refer back to
the law of Moses.
In 1 Corinthians 15:3,4, the apostle affirms:
`I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and
that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures'.
The Epistle to the Galatians insists upon the fact that the
gospel is entirely in harmony with the Old Testament Scriptures:
`The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations
be blessed' (Gal. 3:8).
`The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of
Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe' (Gal. 3:22).