Johann Gerhard (Lutheran [1625]) Arguing for the Antiquity of the Vowel Pointing of the Hebrew Old Testament based on Matthew 5:18

  

From this we infer: Whatever Christ establishes as an essential part of the written Law, that is as old as the written Law. But Christ establishes the vowel points as an essential part of the written Law. Therefore, the vowel points are as old as the written Law. (Johann Gerhard, On the Nature of Theology and on Scripture [trans. Richard J. Dinda; Saint Louis, Miss.: Concordia Publishing House, 2009], 297)