“The modern reader should not see the Mosaic code—anciently or in modern times—as simply a tedious set of religious rituals. … [The] historic covenant, given by the hand of God himself … [is] an avenue to righteousness, [and] should be seen rather as the unparalleled collection of types, shadows, symbols, and prefigurations of Christ that it is. For that reason it was once … a guide to spirituality, a gateway to Christ, a path of strict commandment-keeping that would, through laws of duty and decency, lead to higher laws of holiness on the way to immortality and eternal life” (Holland, Christ and the New Covenant, 136–37).