Tanakh

the note

Tanakh↔The New Testament

This lawyering of the divine — and we saw it throughout Genesis and Exodus, Jacob testing his brothers, the Israelites finding workarounds, Pharisees tithing mint and dill while ignoring mercy — seems like the very substrate Jesus is working against. We arrived at Paul's letters carrying the thread from Jeremiah: a holy law the people could not keep, and the promise that the covenant would one day be written on the hearts of men.

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