(2) of Christ.

During Jesus' ministry he told his followers, who at that time were mostly Jews, that there was no need to concern themselves with the detailed observance of Law through Moses, because:

i) Soon, Moses' Law would have no further authority, and

ii) If they loved God and their fellow men and women as they went about their daily lives, then they would be doing all that God and the Law required.

"Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him with this question: 'Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?' Jesus replied: '"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'" (Matthew 22:34-40).

Jesus saw that these two simple requirements for life, which we think of as the 'Law of Christ', were in fact part of the Law, and summarised all the detail of the Law. They are found in Leviticus 19:18, and Deuteronomy 6:5.