Question Corner by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 11, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 10.

Question Corner

By Editor

"IF YE WILL INQUIRE, INQUIRE YE."

This Inquirers' Department is conducted for the purpose of helping those who are studying the Bible. The answers are oftentimes only suggestive. They are never to be considered infallible, only as they agree with the infallible Word. The writer who may answer them does not consider that his opinion is infallible. He will simply give the best that he has, and plead with the inquirer to search the Word. Such questions only will be answered as, to the editors, seem to minister to the good of the readers and to the mission of the paper. We can not answer repeatedly in the same volume questions upon the same scripture. The name and address must accompany question, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith, and that answer may be made by letter if deemed advisable. No letters are answered which do not contain the name of the writer. It is well always to enclose stamp for reply.

4012 — "With Us, Even Us." Deut. 5:3

How could Moses say that the Lord made the covenant "with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day" (Deut. 5:3), when almost all those were dead who were of accountable age when the Lord made the covenant?

Moses was not comparing those who were listening to his voice then and those who stood at the foot of Mount Sinai when the Lord spoke the law. Exodus 19. He is drawing the contrast with the fathers. "Our fathers" refers to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses was speaking to the nations; and it was with the nations that this covenant was made; and those who were listening to his voice in the repetition of the law, as recorded in Deuteronomy, were of the same nation and the same people, and bound by the same rules and obligations.