Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 334 –Part I.

YOUCAT Question n. 334 – Part I. What connection is there between the “natural moral law” and the Law of the Old Covenant?

(Youcat answer) The Law of the Old Covenant expresses truths that by nature are evident to human reason yet are now proclaimed and authenticated as God’s Law.

A deepening through CCC

(CCC 1961) God, our Creator and Redeemer, chose Israel for himself to be his people and revealed his Law to them, thus preparing for the coming of Christ. The Law of Moses expresses many truths naturally accessible to reason. These are stated and authenticated within the covenant of salvation. 

Reflecting and meditating 

(CCC Comment)

(CCC 1962) The Old Law is the first stage of revealed Law. Its moral prescriptions are summed up in the Ten Commandments. The precepts of the Decalogue lay the foundations for the vocation of man fashioned in the image of God; they prohibit what is contrary to the love of God and neighbor and prescribe what is essential to it. The Decalogue is a light offered to the conscience of every man to make God's call and ways known to him and to protect him against evil: God wrote on the tables of the Law what men did not read in their hearts (St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 57, 1: PL 36, 673).

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