id to his

lem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unt

Christ and lie not."

first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the

or no man can do these miracles that thou doest,

do ye not believe me?"

uth and the life." Ch

They had three years of instruction under our Lord, and the promise from

e books of the Pentateuch. Luke ii. 22 informs us that the mother of Jesus, "when the days of her purification were accomplished according to the law of Moses,"

th came by Jesus Christ" (John i, 17). If he has misled us in reference to Mose

of the cripple, he said: "Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet sha

is side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red Sea" (Deut. i. 1), referring to the whole books spoken by Moses, the learned man, mighty in words and deeds

m God concerning the tabernacle. (Acts vii. 44.) In the twenty-fifth chapter of Exodus, the book in which Moses was commanded to write and d

s of the Jews (2 Cor. iii. 15) he said: "Even unto this

come of his writings? Is it not the Pentateuch which the Scri

ence that through Christ "all that believe are justified from all things,

was a Jew. He was familiar with the Jewish scriptures. He had read the following passages and believed them,

e "given by the hand of Moses" the

hings which were commanded by th

all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken u

h the Lord made between him and the children of Israel

might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did n

bered, according to the word of the Lo

of the Lord they were numbered by

d, at the commandment of the Lord,

according to the commandment of the Lo

you by the hand of Moses, from the day tha

to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Kora and his com

gave him a charge, as the Lord commande

e judgments which the Lord commanded b

e, as the Lord commanded by the

ppoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I sp

to give us cities to dwell in, with the sub

e Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the L

nd the half tribe of Manasseh returned, ... according to th

ey would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he c

of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest

is good promise, which he promised by the ha

anded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and

repare your brethren, that they may do according to the w

, and commandedst unto them precepts, statutes and la

ke a flock by the hand of Moses

e "the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses" (2 Chron. xxxiii. 8), who was learned in all the w

nces which were vital to the life of the Jewish nation, which had been given at Sinai, and were announced with the sanctions of life or death, were not r

connection with the giving of the law. Before Felix he was arraigned,

m of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of th

xviii. 5): "For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righte

he treadeth out the corn." (1 Cor. ix. 9.) Here again he quotes from Deut. xxv. 4, and repeats the quotation in 1 Tim.

ly of the apostles at Jerusalem, saying: "For Moses of old time hath in every cit

ontained in the Pentateuch. We have seen that their faith was founded on twenty-four inspired declarations that these five books were given "by the hand of Moses." These statements are

rist M

o "spake as never man spake," he of whom the Father said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him," this same Jes

thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded for

rds that God had given him. (Exod. xxxiv. 27.) "And Moses wrote all the words of th

orce. Replying, "He saith unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives.

s said, Honor thy father and thy mother." (Mark vii. 10.) This quotation is from Exod. xx. 12, and Deut. v. 16. T

o whose wife she should be in the resurrection, who has had seven husbands in this life. Christ replied (Mark xii. 26, 27): "As touching the dead, that they rise; have ye not read in th

"the book of Moses." Did Christ know whether it was the book of Moses or of some unknown auth

a fraud, but, in view of public opinion, was unwilling to expose the deception? To ask these questions is

the book, and knowing, he affirm

was: "They have Moses and the prophets.... If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." (Luke xvi. 29, 30.) "Moses and the prophets" was the name for the Je

e xxiv. 27), informed them that it was God's plan, foretold in the Old Testament. He appeared to his apostles and declared to them that "all things must be fulfilled which are writ

to the historical incident, if our critical friends will leave us any Biblical history, in Numbers xxi. 8, 9. He

s of the people for their sins, God commanded Moses to make a brazen se

was personal to himself. It was symbolically prophetic of the crucifixion of Christ, as our Savior used it, an event toward which all prophecy moved. And we have alr

e you to the Father; there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For ha

eed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head." He wrote of Christ in Gen. xii. 3, when God promised Abraham: "In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." He wrote of the Messiah when he recorded Jacob's prophecy in Gen.

set up the system of types, for the tabernacle and the temple service, which

g high priest. For "Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle," and received positive direction as to how he should construct it, that redemption should echo from every part of the se

cked the Savior in a fierce controversy, because he healed on the Sabbath day.

19.) He affirms in most positive terms, that can not be twisted into the shadow of a negation, that Moses g

Christ refers to the fact that their children received circumc

n in the Pentateuch was the "law of Moses." He affirms that in that law "he wrote of me." From Genesis to Revelation there is continued affirmation by pro

writers of the Old Testament) more than eight hundred quotations from, or references to, the first five books of the B

ic authorship of the first five books of The Book. "What shall we s