What are the origins of the theory, present in the "Didascalia Apostolorum", about the existence of a "First Law" and a "Second Law"?
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I think the theory is based on a faulty understanding of the Scriptures.
Jesus, when asked about the greatest commandment in the law, answered:
"...'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment." [Matthew 22:37, 38, MEV].
And Jesus went further:
"And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." [Matthew 22:39, 40]
It should be noted that neither of these commandments is included in the Ten Commandments, and that both were given after the golden calf idolatry of the Israelites: therefore, both of these would fall under the theory's classification of "Second Law."
Two commandments of the "'heavy burden' of rules" were judged by Jesus to be the two greatest commandments of the entire Law.
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