Law in the Old Testament, As seen through Aquinas' Treatise of LAw

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In Treatise of Law, Aquinas states that "God's providence rules the world?his reason evidently governs the entire community of the universe" and that "since God's reason conceives eternally, not temporally, we need to say that such law is eternal" (Question 91, First Article, p7)...
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However, because "all laws are derived from the eternal law insofar as they partake of right reason" (Question 93, Third Article, p26) this also means that all laws ultimately belong to the umbrella category of eternal law. However, the ordinances dictated in Exodus 21, while still considered technically to belong to eternal law, bear much more resemblance to human law, described by Aquinas as laws developed as "we advance?from indemonstrable first principles, naturally known, to conclusions?not implanted in us by nature but discovered by exercising reason" (Question 91, Second Article, p10)...
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