Thus it is that the spirit and substance of the entire covenant compact stand out in those words of our Lord which lose their meaning if we look at the Ten Commandments as ten arbitrary commandings of God. When a certain lawyer came to Jesus with the knotty question, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said unto him: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hangeth the whole law, and the prophets."[291] And thus it is that we are enabled to realize that "love ... is the fulfilment of the law."[292] [291] Matt. 22 : 36-40. [292] Rom. 13 : 10. The "Ten Commandments" are the law, the law of the covenant of love; but, be it remembered, they are not the "Mosaic law." They were not originated by Moses; nor were they done away with when the Mosaic law was fulfilled and abrogated in Christ. They are the law of the promptings of love; an orderly statement of the principles which rule in a heart which is devoted to God. Their origin is in the nature of God; and their continuance must be coexistent with the needs of the children of God. With all our shortcomings in love, and with all our failures in fidelity to our covenant-union with God in Christ Jesus, just so far as we are in oneness with God by faith shall we be true to the principles of this covenant-compact of God with his people. "God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him."[293] "And hereby know we that we know him, if we keep his commandments."[294] [293] 1 John 4 : 16. [294] 1 John 2 : 3. INDEXES TOPICAL INDEX Aaron, God's covenant with, 17. Ababde women, reference to, 99. "Abusers of the salt," 110. Added traces of the rite, 123-130. "Agreement" used interchangeably with "covenant," 5. Alexis, Grand Duke, reference to, 125. "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," reference to, 254. Altar and table as synonymous, 85. "Ancient Mariner," reference to, 135. Animal food supplies lack of salt, 38. Antony and Cleopatra, reference to, 55. Arabia, Bed'ween of, reference to, 110. "Arabian Nights," reference to, 64. Arabs: regard for salt covenant among, 29; not accustomed to put salt on table, 29 f.; rite of bread and salt among, 31; John Macgregor taken prisoner by, 32 f.; swearing by salt of, 54; milk sometimes accepted as substitute for salt by, 62; honesty of, 111 f., 166. Archeology: its value compared with philology, 4. Ark of the covenant, reference to, 145. Armenians, supply of salt cut off, 43. "Arrangement," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5. Arvieux: cited, 34. Asiatic cholera promoted by lack of salt, 46. Asiatic Quarterly Review, reference to, 46. Assyrian roots, gain of looking among, 4.