Mosaic law
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- noun
- /moʊˈzeɪɪk lɔ/
- Formal
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- "All who sinned without knowing the Mosaic law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law" (Rom 2:12).
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The Mosaic law includes guidelines on how the Israelites should live a righteous life according to God's will.
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Muslims believe that God is directing the human race on a path of divine knowledge in various ways: through Abraham, the Mosaic law, the prophets, and Jesus.
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Moses taught that freedom was a goal to be achieved by living in terms of the Mosaic law.
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This was in contrast to the easy access to divorce under Mosaic law and its misuse, which was very harmful to women.
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You decry slavery as horrible, and yet you know little to nothing about how slaves lived under Mosaic law.
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There is no such phrase in the Bible, a book which describes children killed for the sins of the fathers and adults killed for numerous violations of Mosaic law.
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The group method is only a complement to other methods and should be treated as such instead of being lauded as though it had been handed down from Heaven on stone tablets like the Mosaic law.
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If, for example, the Mosaic law upheld love of neighbor and hatred of enemy, when Christ came to fulfill that law, he commanded that we hate our enemies for the iniquity of their wills, but love them for the goodness of their natures.
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The targeting of moral knowledge, the determination of Western philosophy since Socrates to defame it or to demand some heavenly authority like the Mosaic law to certify it, looks perverse and unaccountable.
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Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it the audacious falsehood that he was himself his prophet and apostle.
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Synonyms
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The first five books of Jewish religious writings that form the basis of Jewish law
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Religious laws given by God to the Israelites through Moses, including the Ten Commandments
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'Mosaic' means relating to Moses and 'law' means statutes, so together they denote the laws associated with Moses. This is a transparent possessive/attributive naming pattern (laws of X) found across many languages and thus should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Mosaic law comes from the name Moses. The word Mosaic means 'of Moses' and law means 'rules'. A story says God gave rules to the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai, written as the 'Ten Commandments' and other rules, so Mosaic law means the set of religious rules given through Moses in the first books of the Bible.