Existing Study Summaries¶
Studies Relevant to cmd-13 (Law Written on the Heart)¶
1. law-10-new-covenant-and-law (Score: 0.742)¶
Title: Does the New Covenant Abolish or Establish the Moral Law? Relevance: Directly addresses new covenant and law continuity; "my law" identification; Heb 10 structure Key findings: - The new covenant changes WHERE the law is located (stone to hearts), HOW obedience is achieved (human effort to Spirit-empowerment), and WHO mediates (Moses to Christ), but not WHAT law is in force. - The possessive pronouns "MY law" (torati), "MY laws" (nomous mou), "MY statutes/MY judgments" (chuqqay/mishpatay) identify the content as God's own pre-existing law. - Deu 6:5-6 and 30:6, 10-14 -- Heart Obedience. - Psalm 37:31, 40:8 -- Law in the Heart (OT Precedent). - Heb 13:20-21 -- The Everlasting Covenant.
2. covenant-relationship-to-law (Score: 0.720)¶
Title: Does the New Covenant Abolish God's Moral Law? Relevance: Full covenant-law relationship analysis; Spirit-enabled obedience
3. law-09-old-covenant-new-covenant (Score: 0.713)¶
Title: What Is the Old Covenant and What Is the New Covenant? Relevance: Five differences between covenants (location, power, mediator, blood, forgiveness) Key findings: - Five differences between old and new covenants are all structural/administrative: (1) location, (2) power, (3) mediator, (4) blood, (5) forgiveness. None is a change in law content. - The fault in the old covenant was with the people (Heb 8:8, autous = the people), not with the law.
4. old-covenant-new-covenant (Score: 0.741)¶
Title: What Is the Old Covenant and What Is the New Covenant? Relevance: Covenant structure, terms, administration; bilateral vs unilateral
5. law-11-written-on-hearts (Score: 0.659)¶
Title: What Specific Law Is "My Law" Written on Hearts? Relevance: Four textual markers identifying "my law" as the Decalogue Key findings: - Four convergent textual markers identify "my law" as the Decalogue: (1) berith = Decalogue equation (Deu 4:13); (2) kathab verb connection (Deu 10:4 / Jer 31:33); (3) stone medium in 2 Cor 3:3; (4) Heb 10 removes ceremonial while moral law remains on hearts. - N056: The Hebrew verb kathab in Jer 31:33 is the same verb used for writing the Decalogue on stone in Deu 10:4. - N057: The stone-medium in 2 Cor 3:3 identifies the Decalogue, since only the Decalogue was written on stone tablets. - N058: Heb 10:1-18 removes sacrificial system (vv.1-9) AND affirms law written on hearts (v.16). - N051: The possessive "my" identifies the law as God's pre-existing law.
6. cmd-01-decalogue-origin-and-character¶
Title: The Decalogue: Origin, Context, and Character Relevance: N11: new covenant writes "my law" on hearts; same content, different location Key findings: - N11: "The new covenant writes 'my law' on hearts, and this is stated to be 'not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers' -- the change is in mode (stone to heart), since the content ('my law') remains the same." - E45: "I will make a new covenant...not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers...I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts" (Jer 31:31-33). - E46: "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts" (Heb 8:10; 10:16). - E47: "Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart" (2 Cor 3:3). - E48: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you...I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes" (Eze 36:26-27). - E49: "The Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law...the work of the law written in their hearts" (Rom 2:14-15). - I5: "The new covenant fulfills the Decalogue by internalizing it through the Spirit rather than replacing it with different content." - Pattern 5: Covenant Continuity Through Medium Change -- the new covenant does not replace the Decalogue's content but changes its location.
7. cmd-12-love-fulfills-the-law¶
Title: How Does Love Fulfill the Law? Relevance: Spirit-enabled love; I059: new covenant internalizes through Spirit-enabled love Key findings: - E613: "The LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart...to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart" (Deu 30:6). The ability to love is a divine gift. - E616: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts" (Jer 31:33). The new covenant writes the same law on hearts. - E633: "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost" (Rom 5:5). Love is Spirit-produced. - E634: "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom 8:4). - I059: "The new covenant internalizes the Decalogue through Spirit-enabled love rather than replacing it with different content." - N098: "The love that fulfills the law is Spirit-enabled, not self-generated."
8. law-23-law-of-christ (Score: 0.604)¶
Title: The "Law of Christ" and Related NT Law Phrases Relevance: NT law continuity in new covenant context
9. cmd-16-comprehensive-synthesis (Score: 0.482)¶
Title: Ten Commandments Comprehensive Synthesis Relevance: New covenant internalization (section 6.4); covenant connection (section 11.3) Key findings: - "The new covenant does not replace the Decalogue's content but changes its location."
10. law-04-ceremonial-laws¶
Title: Ceremonial Laws Relevance: Heb 8:1-13 covenant argument about arrangement, not moral law Key findings: - "Heb 8:1-13 -- The argument is about the covenant arrangement, not the moral law itself."
Cross-Referenced Evidence Items¶
| Evidence ID | Statement | Reference | Registered In |
|---|---|---|---|
| E003 | Tables of stone written with the finger of God | Exo 31:18; Deu 9:10 | cmd-01 |
| E005 | His covenant = ten commandments; wrote them upon two tables of stone | Deu 4:13 | cmd-01 |
| E025 | Do we make void the law through faith? God forbid: we establish the law | Rom 3:31 | cmd-01 |
| E026 | The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk after the Spirit | Rom 8:4 | cmd-01 |
| E037 | Gentiles do by nature the things of the law; the work of the law written in their hearts | Rom 2:14-15 | cmd-01 |
| E038 | I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts | Jer 31:33 | cmd-01 |
| E039 | I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts | Heb 8:10; 10:16 | cmd-01 |
| E040 | I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes | Eze 36:27 | cmd-01 |
| E045 | I will make a new covenant...not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers | Jer 31:31-33 | cmd-01 |
| E046 | I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts (Hebrews quoting Jer) | Heb 8:10; 10:16 | cmd-01 |
| E047 | Written not with ink, but with the Spirit; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart | 2 Cor 3:3 | cmd-01 |
| E048 | A new heart; new spirit; I will put my spirit within you, cause you to walk in my statutes | Eze 36:26-27 | cmd-01 |
| E049 | Gentiles do by nature the things of the law; the work of the law written in their hearts | Rom 2:14-15 | cmd-01 |
| E050 | The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk after the Spirit | Rom 8:3-4 | cmd-01 |
| E264 | The LORD commanded me to teach you statutes and judgments (distinguishing from Decalogue) | Deu 4:14 | law-09 |
| E265 | O that there were such an heart in them to keep all my commandments always | Deu 5:29 | law-09 |
| E274 | Finding fault with THEM (autous = the people, not the law/covenant) | Heb 8:8 | law-10 |
| E282 | Written not with ink, but with the Spirit; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart | 2 Cor 3:3 | law-10 |
| E285 | What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh | Rom 8:3 | law-10 |
| E303 | Kathab verb in Jer 31:33 = same verb for writing Decalogue on stone in Deu 10:4 | Jer 31:33; Deu 10:4 | law-11 |
| E304 | LXX grapho in Heb 8:10/10:16 renders the Hebrew kathab of Jer 31:33 / Deu 10:4 | Heb 8:10; 10:16 | law-11 |
| E305 | Stone tables in 2 Cor 3:3 identify the Decalogue (only law written on stone) | 2 Cor 3:3 | law-11 |
| E306 | Heb 10:16: law written on hearts is distinct from what was removed (sacrificial system) | Heb 10:16 | law-11 |
| E307 | Heb 10:1-9 removes sacrificial system; Heb 10:16 affirms law written on hearts | Heb 10:4,9,16 | law-11 |
| E308 | Deu 5:29 laments Israel's lack of heart; Jer 31:33 resolves this | Deu 5:29; Jer 31:33 | law-11 |
| E608 | Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments | Exo 20:6 | cmd-12 |
| E613 | The LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart to love the LORD thy God | Deu 30:6 | cmd-12 |
| E633 | The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost | Rom 5:5 | cmd-12 |
| E634 | The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk after the Spirit | Rom 8:4 | cmd-12 |
| N051 | The possessive "my" identifies the law as God's pre-existing law | Jer 31:33; Heb 8:10; 10:16 | law-11 |
| N052 | Five covenant differences are all structural/administrative, not content-based | Multiple | law-09 |
| N056 | Kathab verb connection links Decalogue-writing (Deu 10:4) to heart-writing (Jer 31:33) | Jer 31:33; Deu 10:4 | law-11 |
| N057 | Stone medium in 2 Cor 3:3 identifies the Decalogue | 2 Cor 3:3 | law-11 |
| N058 | Heb 10:1-18 removes sacrificial system AND affirms law written on hearts | Heb 10:1-18 | law-11 |
| N059 | Deu 5:29 lament + Jer 31:33 promise share heart/commandment vocabulary | Deu 5:29; Jer 31:33 | law-11 |
| I005 | The new covenant fulfills the Decalogue by internalizing through the Spirit | Multiple | cmd-01 |
| I059 | The new covenant internalizes the Decalogue through Spirit-enabled love | Multiple | cmd-12 |
| I069 | "My law" (torati) in Jer 31:33 refers specifically to the moral law (Decalogue) | Multiple | law-11 |