The Old Testament believers were saved with the same salvation, were indebted to the same Redeemer, were renewed by the same Spirit, and were partakers of the same heavenly inheritance as are New Testament believers.#
Regeneration or non-regeneration affected the salvation of individuals among them, but it did not affect the covenant relationship of the people as a whole.#
In bestowing grace, God never rescinds His claims upon us, but rather enables us to meet them.#
The very One who gave the Law became incarnate, bled and died, under its condemning sentence, rather than that a tittle thereof should fail.#
Still the question may be asked, How are you going to reconcile Exodus 21:24, with Matthew 5:38-44? Our answer is, There is nothing between them to “reconcile,” for there is nothing in them which clashes. The former passage is one of the statutes appointed for public magistrates to enforce, whereas the latter one lays down rules for private individuals to live by!#
If the question be asked, What, then, is the great distinction between the Mosaic and Christian eras? the answer is, God’s grace was then confined to one nation, but now it flows out to all nations.#