Put differently, although the Mosaic law is specifically different from all other bodies of law with regard to types of content,30 it still belongs to the same genus as all bodies of civil law. Essential to that genus is that all laws ought to be both righteous and good. The Mosaic law was a perfect body of law for the Jewish people not simply because God declared it to be perfect but because it was actually perfect. It was, according to God’s natural law, both righteous and good, and it was good because it perfectly conduced to the common good of the Jewish people in their circumstances, if
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