What is written in the law?
&c.] Christ, with great propriety, sends him to the law, to
see and observe what was written there, what are the terms and
conditions of life, as fixed there; partly, because this man, by
his office and character, was an interpreter of the law; and
partly, because his question was, what shall I do?
how readest thou?
in the law, every day; referring to the "Keriat Shema", the
reading of the Shema, i.e. those words in ( Deuteronomy
6:4 ) , &c, "Hear, O Israel" morning and evening
F9 as appears by his answer