To Correspondents by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1875

To Correspondents.

By Uriah Smith

C. A. M., New Bloomington, O., The moral law has never been changed. The New Testament introduces no new law to take the place of the old. The law of types which looked forward to Christ, ceased when he, the antitype, came.

The unpardonable sin is attributing the work of the Holy Ghost to the power of Satan, to escape an acknowledgment of the truth. Consider the circumstances. Matt. 12:22-32.

In answer to your question, Who was Melchisedec? Heb. 7:1-3, we reply that if we knew, it would not be Melchisedec.

By whom was the Most Holy anointed? Dan. 9:24. E. O.

Ans. In the type, Moses, by the command of God, anointed the tabernacle and all the sacred vessels. So the antitype of this work, to which Dan. 9:24 doubtless refers, could be performed by any divine being to whom God might commit the work.

Will the original from which the words “three ribs” are translated, Dan. 7:5, bear any other translation? A. A. V.

The original word for ribs is pleura, which has the signification 1. of rib, 2. the membrane that lines the chest, the pleura, 3. the sides of a rectangle, 4. the page of a book. It will certainly bear no other definition in Dan. 7:5, but that of rib.

Will God dwell in the New Jerusalem in the earth made new, or in Heaven above, only visiting the city? E. J. L.

This is one of these questions of which we shall know more when we experience the reality. At present we have only the testimony of Rev. 21:3, recording the utterance of a voice from Heaven, “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God.”

W. C.: Matt. 5:32 and 19:9 seem to be sufficiently plain in regard to the only proper grounds for divorce. U. S.