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4. "The law" was
given by Moses and the law of Moses" includes the
Decalogue.
Not that Moses was the author of
it, but it was through him God gave it to Israel. This is
stated so distinctly and 10 many times that it is useless
to deny it. "The law was given by Moses" (John
1:17). "Did not Moses give you the law?" (John
7:19). "The law which the Lord had commanded by
Moses" (Neh. 8:14). "God's law, which was given
by Moses" (Neh. 10:29). This includes the Decalogue.
"Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother"
(Mark 7:10). This is the fifth commandment. Again:
"Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?" (John
7:19). The law against killing is here called the law of
Moses.
In Heb. 10:28 it is said that
"he that despised Moses' law died without mercy under
two or three witnesses." Persons were put to death
for violating the Decalogue (see Deut. 17:6). They were
put to death for breaking the Sabbath (Exod. 31:14),
blasphemy, theft, and the like. Hence the Decalogue is
included in "the law of Moses."
In Josh. 8: 30, 31, we read:
"Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of
Israel in Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord
commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the
book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over
which no man hath lift up any iron." It says that
this about the altar was written in the "book of the
law of Moses." Now turn to Exod. 20: 25, the very
chapter where the Decalogue is found, and there you have
the text referred to. This proves beyond denial that the
Ten Commandments are in the law of Moses.
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