To Correspondents

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 21, 1870

To Correspondents.

A. SMITH: We see no force in the criticism on the second commandment, as given in Tuberville's Abridgment of Christian doctrine. We do not see how it helps the Catholic church to say “graven thing,” instead of “graven image,” as in our version. The Hebrew word is Pesel, which is defined by Gesenius, “a carved image of an idol.” But granting that it should be translated thing, instead of image, the words following, “or any likeness of anything,” cut off the formation of anything, whether by sculpture, painting, or any other means, which is designed as an object of worship. It certainly condemns their picture worship.

A. E. HEATON: For our views of the Two Witnesses, see Thoughts on the Revelation, chapter 11, verses 3 to 12.