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The question of the formal structure of religious authority is one question, the question of its material content, another. Thus, whether X is an authority, or rather the explicit primal ontic source of authority---this being a question about X'_s place in the formal structure of religious authority---X_ may represent either the gift and demand of unconditional love, or the gift and demand of conditional love. 

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Thus Christ, for Matthew, is a "second Moses," but only in something like the same sense in which Christ, for Paul, is a "second Adam." That is, Christ for Matthew, as much as for Paul, is not simply an authority, not even the authority_,_ but, rather, the explicit primal ontic  ontic source of authority. And yet, whereas Christ, for Paul the Christian, re-presents the gift and demand of unconditional love, together with the selfunderstandingself-understanding/understanding of existence corresponding thereto, Christ, for Matthew, very much as the law for Paul the Pharisee, re-presents the gift and demand of conditional love only, together with the self-understanding/understanding of existence corresponding to it. 

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