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Dr. Clarke on Ex. 34 : 28

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 46.

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Dr. Clarke on Ex. 34 : 28.

By James H. Waggoner

THE following remarks of Dr. Clarke on the pronoun in this text are clear on the point. The only wonder is that any should be found who will deny a conclusion so evident :—
"It may be supposed that this mode of interpretation is contradicted by the 28th verse— And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant ; but that the pronoun HE refers to the Lord, and not to Moses, is sufficiently proved by the parallel place, Deut. 10 : 1-4. 'At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first— and I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables. And I hewed two tables of stone as at the first— and HE wrote on the tables according to the first writing.' This determines the business, and proves that God wrote the second as well as the first, and that the pronoun in the 28th verse of this chapter refers to the Lord, and not to Moses. By this mode of interpretation all contradiction is removed."
Dr. Clarke correctly considered that the other view makes the Scriptures contradict themselves. Such a result will be carefully avoided by all who love truth more than a short-lived victory.
J. H. W.