p. 11 | The Decalogue by G. B. THOMPSON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 28, 1909

The Decalogue

By G. B. THOMPSON

G. B. THOMPSON

It is related of an eminent lawyer that he was led to renounce infidelity, and become a believer in Christ, through a study of the decalogue. Speaking of this wonderful law, he said: “I have been looking into the nature of that law; I have been trying to see whether I could add anything to it, or take anything from it, so as to make it better. Sir, I can not; it is perfect. . . . I have been thinking, Where did Moses get this law? I have read history. The Egyptians and the adjacent natives were idolaters; so were the Greeks and Romans; and the wisest and best Greeks and Romans never made a code of morals like this. Where did he get it? He could not have soared so far above his age as to have devised it himself. It came down from heaven.”

Here we have an illustration of the truthfulness of the words of the psalmist when he declares that “the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” This law did not indeed originate with man. The great original is in heaven, in the most holy place of the sanctuary, and will be the standard by which all will be judged at the last day.

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