Untitled article by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 26, 1867

A Point Explained.

By James White

J. H. W: The point to which you refer on p. 301 of Spiritual Gifts, Vol. iii, was noticed in Review, Vol. xxviii, No. 9, as follows:

“Obj. 38. A point occurs on p. 301 of Spiritual Gifts, Vol. iii, concerning which several good brethren have written, not as the objector, to find fault, and pick flaws, but for information. The language is concerning the system of sacrificial offerings which was established with Adam after the fall, and reads as follows: ‘This system was corrupted before the flood by those who separated themselves from the faithful followers of God and engaged in the building of the tower of Babel.’ An unfortunate typographical error which has crept in here, makes the language place the building of the building of the tower of Babel before the flood. After the word ‘flood,’ a comma and the word ‘and’ have been left out. It should read thus: ‘This system was corrupted before the flood, and by those who separated themselves from the faithful followers of God, and engaged in the building of the tower of Babel’ [after the flood, of course understood]. It is a statement simply that both before and after the flood, the system of sacrifices was corrupted by mankind.”