Torahlessness vs Torahfulness as THE goal of disciple living

thoughts

• bookends of Torah on the Mount
• Messiah’s function/purpose as Torah instructor “par excellence”

passages

• Matthew 5:17 LEB “Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill/FILL-UP-TO-MAX them. SBLGNT Μὴ νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον καταλῦσαι τὸν νόμον ἢ τοὺς προφήτας· οὐκ ἦλθον καταλῦσαι ἀλλὰ πληρῶσαι· HB2 5:17 "אַל תַּחְשְׁבוּ שֶׁבָּאתִי לְבַטֵּל אֶת הַתּוֹרָה אוֹ אֶת הַנְּבִיאִים; לֹא בָּאתִי לְבַטֵּל כִּי אִם לְקַיֵּם.
• Matthew 5:20 LEB For I say to you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses/FILLS-UP-PAST-EDGES_BOUNDS that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven. SBLGNT λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐὰν μὴ περισσεύσῃ ⸂ὑμῶν ἡ δικαιοσύνη⸃ πλεῖον τῶν γραμματέων καὶ Φαρισαίων, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. HB2 5:20 אוֹמֵר אֲנִי לָכֶם, אִם לֹא תִּהְיֶה צִדְקַתְכֶם מְרֻבָּה מִצִּדְקַת הַסּוֹפְרִים וְהַפְּרוּשִׁים לֹא תִּכָּנְסוּ לְמַלְכוּת הַשָּׁמַיִם."
• Matthew 7:23 LEB And then I will say to them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness/TORAHLESSNESS!’ SBLGNT καὶ τότε ὁμολογήσω αὐτοῖς ὅτι Οὐδέποτε ἔγνων ὑμᾶς· ἀποχωρεῖτε ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν. HB2 7:23 אָז אוֹדִיעַ לָהֶם: ‘מֵעוֹלָם לֹא הִכַּרְתִּי אֶתְכֶם, סוּרוּ מִמֶּנִּי עוֹשֵׂי רֶשַׁע’."