This comes due to the conceptual meaning of the mother’s milk as something that god made for nurture of the calf
Doing this would be extremely cruel and usage against the intended purpose
The principle was to instill a sense of profound abhorrence against cruel and unnatural acts as guidance towards perfection demanded of them to be able to be god’s chosen people.
Jesus managed to completely fulfill the spirit of the law. Since that moment it was abolished for a new law.
Animals were only a part of it and thinking more about it, the Law contained a number of similar injunctions against cruelty to animals and safeguards against working contrary to the natural order of things.
For instance, the also Law included commands that prohibited sacrificing an animal unless it had been with its mother for at least seven days, slaughtering both an animal and its offspring on the same day, and taking from a nest both a mother and her eggs or offspring
This comes due to the conceptual meaning of the mother’s milk as something that god made for nurture of the calf
Doing this would be extremely cruel and usage against the intended purpose
The principle was to instill a sense of profound abhorrence against cruel and unnatural acts as guidance towards perfection demanded of them to be able to be god’s chosen people.
Jesus managed to completely fulfill the spirit of the law. Since that moment it was abolished for a new law.
Animals were only a part of it and thinking more about it, the Law contained a number of similar injunctions against cruelty to animals and safeguards against working contrary to the natural order of things.
For instance, the also Law included commands that prohibited sacrificing an animal unless it had been with its mother for at least seven days, slaughtering both an animal and its offspring on the same day, and taking from a nest both a mother and her eggs or offspring
(Leviticus 22:27, 28; Deuteronomy 22:6, 7)