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:
These
have
a special
place
as having been written on
the
tables
of
stone
by “the finger of
God
” (
Ex. 31:18
18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:18)
).
Deuteronomy 10:4
4
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. (Deuteronomy 10:4)
(margin) reads “the
ten
words,” and
they
are
often
referred to as the
DECALOGUE
. They are
also
called “the words of the
covenant
,” in
Exodus 34:28
28
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. (Exodus 34:28)
. It was after hearing these
ten commandments
rehearsed by
Moses
that the Israelites said to
him
, “Go thou near, and hear
all
that the
Lord
our God shall say; and
speak
thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it and do it” (
Deut. 5:27
27
Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. (Deuteronomy 5:27)
). The two
stones
are also called the “tables of the
testimony
” (
Ex. 34:29
29
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. (Exodus 34:29)
), and they were laid up in the
ark
of the covenant, (
Ex. 40:20
20
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: (Exodus 40:20)
;
1 Kings 8:9
9
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. (1 Kings 8:9)
;
Heb. 9:4
4
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; (Hebrews 9:4)
); over which were the two
cherubim
as guardians of God’s rights together
with
the
mercy
-
seat
.
The giving of the two stones to
Israel
by God (who, though gracious and
merciful
, would by no means clear the guilty) amid a
measure
of
glory
is referred to by
Paul
, when he describes the commandments written in letters thereon as “the ministration of
death
”; in contrast to which he speaks of the glory of the ministration of the
Spirit
(that is, of
Christ
,
for
the Lord is that Spirit), and of the ministration of
righteousness
: it is the story of
man
’s failure, and of God’s righteousness available to the
believer
through Christ (
2 Cor. 3:7-11
7
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. (2 Corinthians 3:7‑11)
).
Related Books and Articles:
The Moral Content of the Ten Commandments: Application to Christians
By:
Clifford Henry Brown
Exodus 20
From:
Lectures Introductory to the Bible: 1. Pentateuch
By:
William Kelly
Call: 1-630-543-1441
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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