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Abrogation of the judicial laws is a difficult question. It can neither simply be said to endure since the Mosaic polity was abolished, and yet neither can it be said that all have been abrogated since many laws, whose purpose and aim is perpetual, continue.
Thus, however, it seems to be established: the Christian magistrate is not bound by the judicial law of Moses as far as it pertains to circumstances particular to the people of Israel; that, however, which pertains to the kinds of punishments sanctioned to protect the authority of the Ten Commandments of God, it seems certain that the magistrate of a Christian people is to be bound by these today no less than the people of Israel were in the past. …
Judicial law, to the extent that it was properly accommodated to the Jewish people, does not obligate the magistrate of a Christian people. Nevertheless, insofar as it determines punishments for crimes, it obliges the Christian magistrate no less today than it obliged Jewish ones in the past.
Johannes Piscator, Aphorismi Doctrinae Christianae, ex Institutione Calvini excerpti(Herborn, 1589), pp 17-18, 130. Quoted in Joel McDurmon, Editor’s Introduction to Johannes Piscator, Disputations on the Judicial Laws of Moses, trans. Adam J. Brink, ed. Joel McDurmon (1646; Powder Springs GA: American Vision Press, 2015), xviii-xix.
Abrogation of the judicial laws is a difficult question. It can neither simply be said to endure since the Mosaic polity was abolished, and yet neither can it be said that all have been abrogated since many laws, whose purpose and aim is perpetual, continue.
Thus, however, it seems to be established: the Christian magistrate is not bound by the judicial law of Moses as far as it pertains to circumstances particular to the people of Israel; that, however, which pertains to the kinds of punishments sanctioned to protect the authority of the Ten Commandments of God, it seems certain that the magistrate of a Christian people is to be bound by these today no less than the people of Israel were in the past. …
Judicial law, to the extent that it was properly accommodated to the Jewish people, does not obligate the magistrate of a Christian people. Nevertheless, insofar as it determines punishments for crimes, it obliges the Christian magistrate no less today than it obliged Jewish ones in the past.
Johannes Piscator, Aphorismi Doctrinae Christianae, ex Institutione Calvini excerpti(Herborn, 1589), pp 17-18, 130. Quoted in Joel McDurmon, Editor’s Introduction to Johannes Piscator, Disputations on the Judicial Laws of Moses, trans. Adam J. Brink, ed. Joel McDurmon (1646; Powder Springs GA: American Vision Press, 2015), xviii-xix.
