The Law, The Prophets, and the Kingdom of Heaven

...a. His coming was not to destroy or lose men's obligations to the law. The word "destroy" means to tear down, dismantle, and bring to ruin. We do this to build something else in its place. He did not come to abrogate or to deny its divine authority and to set the people free from their obligation to obey them. His coming was to set the Law in its proper place, to give back to it the High and Holy place from which the hands of wicked men, that is the Pharisee's and the scribes, which had taken it and reduced it to a means of self-righteous and boasting...