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If you look at the prologue to the Ten Commandments, God says “I am the Lord… who brought you out of the house of slavery.” The giving of the Law is predicated on redemption.

God’s Law is nothing more than His redemptive love given form to clothe His people. Augustine called this lex caritatis, and it is the ordering of our thoughts and deeds according to the Law of Love. Calvin and the Westminsterians also had their own ways of getting at the same idea. Possession of the Law marks us as under God’s protection as recipients of His grace and as adopted sons and daughters.

In drawing near to us through covenant (ie Sinai, the New Covenant, etc) God lavishes His love upon us and gives us a kind advisor who instructs us how to best love God and to love our neighbor. This law works to our good and the good of our neighbor. In this way the giving of the law is an act of covenantal grace.

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