D. M. CANRIGHT by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1872

D. M. CANRIGHT

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Deut. 31: 26.

Our English version of the Bible says that the law of Moses was written in a book and placed “IN the side of the ark of the covenant.” The learned Dr. Horne has these remarks on this passage:

“Previously to the building of Solomon’s Temple, the Pentateuch was deposited BY the side of the ark of the covenant (Deut. 31: 24–26), to be consulted by the Israelites; and after

the erection of that sacred edifice, it was deposited in the treasury.

On the phrase “by the side of the ark” he has the following foot note:

“So it should be rendered;—not IN the side of the ark. See Dr. Kennicott’s Diss. 2, p. 298.” The emphasis in both cases is his. Horne’s Introduction, vol. i, part i, chap. ii, p. 200. This still more forcibly shows the distinction between the law of God and the law of Moses—one was put in the ark, the other by the side of the ark.