📖 The Gospel — The Good News That Requires the Bad News First
"The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man's heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it."
"The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man's heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it."
Tractate Makkot deals with lashes as judicial punishment and laws of witnesses. Its final folio contains a remarkable passage in which the rabbis compress the entire 613 commandments of Torah down to a single principle — and the single verse they land on is the same verse Paul quotes as the foundation of justification by faith.