The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism | Page 8

i. 1), referring to the
whole books spoken by Moses, the learned man, mighty in words and
deeds, but not recorded, the critics say, until after the exile, about a
thousand years! This you are asked to believe on the basis of the
professed or assumed acumen of the critics!
Further, in his great speech before the Sanhedrim at his martyrdom,
Stephen quotes Moses as having received full and complete directions
from God concerning the tabernacle. (Acts vii. 44.) In the twenty-fifth
chapter of Exodus, the book in which Moses was commanded to write
and did write, these directions are recorded. We accept Stephen's
testimony, added to that of Exod. xxv., rather than the testimony of the
critics.
When Paul was writing to the Corinthians of the blindness of the Jews

(2 Cor. iii. 15) he said: "Even unto _this day, when Moses is read_, the
veil is upon their hearts."
Moses must have written something if he was read. What has become
of his writings? Is it not the Pentateuch which the Scriptures
everywhere call the writings of Moses? Undoubtedly, yes.
In Paul's missionary sermon at Antioch in Pisidia, he declared to his
audience that through Christ "all that believe are justified from all
things, from which ye could not be justified _by the law of Moses_"
(Acts xiii. 39).
Why does Paul refer to the ceremonial of the Jewish ritual as the law of
Moses? It must be answered that Paul was a Jew. He was familiar with
the Jewish scriptures. He had read the following passages and believed
them, and was grounded in the truth which they declare, that "by the
hand of Moses" they were given to the people.
To satisfy the reader that they were "given by the hand of Moses" the
following Scriptures are furnished:
1. "Aaron and his sons did all things which were commanded by the
hand of Moses." (Lev. viii. 36.)
2. "That ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the
Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses." (Lev. x. 11.)
3. "These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made
between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of
Moses." (Lev. xxvi. 46.)
4. "These were they that were numbered of the families of the
Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number, according to the
commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Num. iv. 37.)
5. "These ... whom Moses and Aaron numbered, according to the word
of the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Num. iv. 45.)
6. "According to the commandment of the Lord they were numbered by
the hand of Moses." (Num. iv. 49.)
7. "They kept the charge of the Lord, at the commandment of the Lord,
_by the hand of Moses._" (Num. ix. 23.)
8. "And they first took their journey according to the commandment of
the Lord by the hand of Moses." (Num. x. 13.)
9. "Even all that the Lord hath commanded you _by the hand of
Moses_, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses." (Num. xv.

23.)
10. "That no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to
offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Kora and his company,
as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses." (Num. xvi. 40.)
11. "And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
Lord commanded by the hand of Moses." (Num. xxvii. 23.)
12. "These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord
commanded by the hand of Moses." (Num. xxxvi. 13.)
13. "By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand
of Moses." (Joshua xiv. 2.)
14. "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you
cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses."
(Joshua xx. 2.)
15. "The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to
dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle." (Joshua xxi. 2.)
16. "And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities
with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses."
(Joshua xxi. 8.)
17. "And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half
tribe of Manasseh returned, ... according to the word of the Lord by the
hand of Moses." (Joshua xxii. 9.)
18. "And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he
commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses." (Judges iii. 4.)
19. "Thou didst separate them from among all the people of