Study Database — Key Query Results (law-31 Synthesis)¶

Studies in Database (30 total)¶

law-01: What Is God's Moral Law? Basis, Nature
law-02: What Evidence Exists for the Moral Law Before Sinai?
law-03: How Does the Exodus Narrative Distinguish the Decalogue from Later Laws?
law-04: What Are the Ceremonial/Ritual Laws and How Do They Differ?
law-05: Civil/Judicial Laws in the Pentateuch
law-06: What Do Torah, Mitsvah, Choq, Mishpat, etc. Mean?
law-07: What Does "The Law of Moses" Refer To?
law-08: What Was Abolished at the Cross?
law-09: What Is the Old Covenant and What Is the New Covenant?
law-10: Does the New Covenant Abolish or Establish the Law?
law-11: What Specific Law Is "My Law" Written on Hearts?
law-12: What Does Jesus Mean by "Not Come to Destroy"? (Mat 5:17-20)
law-13: What Do Jesus's Sabbath Actions and Teachings Reveal?
law-14: What Did Jesus Specifically Teach About the Law?
law-15: What Did the Jerusalem Council Decide About the Law? (Acts 15)
law-16: What Does Paul Teach About the Law in Romans?
law-17: What Is Paul Arguing in Galatians Regarding the Law?
law-18: Hebrews 8-10 — Priesthood, Covenant, and Law
law-19: 2 Corinthians 3 — Ministry of Death on Stones
law-20: NT Greek Law Vocabulary
law-21: How Does NT Vocabulary Encode Law Categories?
law-22: James and the Law
law-23: The "Law of Christ" — What Is It?
law-24: Weekly Sabbath vs Ceremonial Sabbaths
law-25: Is the Sabbath Moral or Ceremonial?
law-26: Do Colossians 2:16-17 and Related Passages Abolish the Weekly Sabbath?
law-27: Is the Seventh-Day Sabbath Still in Effect?
law-28: What Commandments Are in Revelation?
law-29: What Specific Laws Continue and What Specific Laws Ceased?
law-30: What Does Telos Mean in Romans 10:4?

Key Passage Cross-References¶

Col 2:14¶

Analyzed in: law-04, law-05, law-07, law-08, law-20, law-21, law-26, law-29
Key finding: cheirographon tois dogmasin ("handwriting of ordinances") uses vocabulary (dogma, cheirographon) never applied to the Decalogue
The word cheirographon means "hand-written" — contrasts with the Decalogue written by God's finger
Classified as E054 (Continues) because the text itself identifies what was nailed

Mat 5:17¶

Analyzed in: law-09, law-10, law-12, law-14, law-29, law-30
Key finding: Jesus explicitly denies coming to destroy (kataluo) the law; pleroo in context means to fill up/magnify, not terminate
The kataluo/pleroo contrast and the continuation in vv.18-19 anchor the Continues position at E-tier
Classified as E021 (Continues)

Rom 3:31¶

Analyzed in: law-08, law-09, law-10, law-16, law-30
Key finding: Paul uses katargeo ("make void") with me genoito (strongest negation) + histemi ("establish")
This is the same verb (katargeo) Paul uses in Eph 2:15 for abolishing ordinances — he denies it applies to "the law"
Classified as E025 (Continues)

Heb 10:16¶

Analyzed in: law-09, law-10, law-11, law-18
Key finding: The possessive "my laws" (nomous mou) identifies God's pre-existing laws; the same passage removes sacrifices (vv.1-9) and writes laws on hearts (v.16)
Classified as E306 (Continues)

Rom 10:4¶

Analyzed in: law-16, law-30
Key finding: Telos has two senses (goal/purpose vs. termination); in Rom 10:4 context, Paul's argument (vv.5-8, quoting Deut 30) and his broader Romans theology (3:31, 7:12, 8:4) support "goal/purpose"
Classified as E061 (Neutral) because the verse itself is ambiguous

Gal 3:24¶

Analyzed in: law-09, law-16, law-17, law-21, law-29
Key finding: The paidagogos metaphor describes the law's custodial function, not its content; "no longer under a schoolmaster" does not mean moral standards were abolished
Classified as E059 (Neutral)

2 Cor 3:7¶

Analyzed in: law-01, law-03, law-07, law-08, law-11, law-19, law-21, law-29, law-30
Key finding: katargoumenen (feminine singular) agrees grammatically with doxa (glory, feminine), not with entole or nomos; the word nomos never appears in 2 Cor 3; the subject throughout is diakonia (ministry)
The passage is about the fading glory of the old-covenant ministry, not the abolition of the law itself
Classified as E048 (Neutral)

Key Greek Vocabulary Patterns¶

katargeo (G2673) — "to abolish, make void"¶

27 NT occurrences
Used for: abolishing death (2 Tim 1:10), destroying body of sin (Rom 6:6), fading glory (2 Cor 3:7,11,13)
Critical: Paul denies katargeo applies to "the law" in Rom 3:31
In Eph 2:15, what is katargeo'd is "the law of commandments in ordinances" (ton nomon ton entolon en dogmasin)

dogma (G1378) — "decree/ordinance"¶

5 NT occurrences: Luke 2:1 (Caesar's decree), Acts 16:4 (council decrees), Acts 17:7 (Caesar's decrees), Eph 2:15, Col 2:14
In law contexts (Eph 2:15, Col 2:14): always the term for what was abolished
Never used for the Decalogue or moral law

cheirographon (G5498) — "handwriting"¶

NT hapax legomenon (Col 2:14 only)
Means "hand-written" (cheir + grapho)
Contrasts with God's finger-writing on stone tablets

entole (G1785) — "commandment"¶

71 NT occurrences
Content identification: when content is specified, it is consistently moral/Decalogue
Used for: "commandments of God" (Rev 12:17; 14:12), Jesus's "my commandments" (Jhn 14:15)
Never used in NT for ceremonial ordinances that were abolished

nomos (G3551) — "law"¶

194 NT occurrences
Has the broadest semantic range: can refer to Pentateuch, Decalogue, ceremonial system, operating principle
The articular/anarthrous pattern does NOT reliably distinguish categories (N103)

I-B Resolution Summary¶

All I-B items across 30 studies resolve by the SIS protocol (plain passages interpret ambiguous ones). No I-B item was classified as "Unresolved" in the final evidence database. The I-B items classified as Abolished (22) represent claims where some textual support exists but the weight of the plain-text evidence resolves them toward the Continues direction per the methodology's SIS protocol. However, they remain classified by the direction of the claim itself, not the resolution.