Excursus - Living Into Christ's Fulfillment

This messages concludes the treatment of Paul's meeting with the Jerusalem elders and the dilemma they addressed. As see, this passage implicates the matter of Christ's fulfillment of the Mosaic Law, which is itself a focal concern in ongoing discussions regarding the relationship between law and gospel, between the Old and New Covenants, and even between the Old and New Testaments. These relationships have obvious theological and hermeneutical importance, but they are also fundamental to the practical issue of ethics and how a truly Christian ethic is to be derived from the Scriptures.