Thank you. You make an interesting point, which I hadn’t thought of before, in equating Jesus’ “it is finished” on the cross with “everything is accomplished” in Matthew 5. I’m not entirely convinced, though, because immediately after Jesus says that “not one jot or tittle would disappear from the Law until everything was accomplished” he continues by refining aspects of the Law (“You have heard that it was said … but I tell you that …”). He doesn’t give any indication that this is purely a temporary arrangement (“just for the next couple of years, after which we’re scrapping the whole law thing anyway”) – this is basic moral teaching for evermore, founded on the Law. What Jesus is doing is to say that the Law is not a textbook or numbered list in which we can search for exceptions and loopholes to justify our behaviour: it is “case law” that shows us how God regards our moral behaviour in a broad sense. It’s not a matter of “score more than 7 out of 10 and you’ll be saved” but of “this is how God’s people live”. And that, I think, is also precisely what Paul is getting at — I don’t see any contradiction there. In other words, there is no shift in what is morally right and acceptable between the OT and the NT – merely in the relationship between law and salvation. The “yoke of the law” to which Paul was referring is the idea that salvation depends on how well we keep the law. It doesn’t – it depends on Jesus Christ. But Jesus still tells us – just like he told the rich young man – to live according to the Law (capital “L”, singular, rather than small “l” plural).