which last have more than one Hebrew equivalent. I cannot conceive that anything less than the whole Pentateuch is intended here. Nor would Professor Driver, so far as I can see, take any exception to this view of Psalm cxix. But, then, consider the consequences. Here, in one and the same Book of the Old Testament, we have the Law of God brought into relation to David, Ezra, and Joshua, as having the same obligations, and producing the same spiritual effect. And this effect is, by promise, in the first Psalm, conveyed to every man who shall study the book of law as Joshua was ordered to study it, in view of the entrance of Israel into Canaan under his guidance.

Of course it is open to any man to disbelieve this, or dispute it on any grounds that may occur to him. But, then, what becomes of the statements and authority of Holy Scripture ?

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My allegation, then, is proved. fessor Driver's statement that the Law is not the work of Moses, and was not

written in the shape in which we have it, so as to be certainly complete before the time of Ezra, will not square with these passages from the Book of Joshua and from the Book of Psalms.

But this passage in Joshua i. is only the first of a series. There are two more in the same book.

In chapter xxiii. 6, 7 we read: "Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or the left; that ye come not among these nations," &c.

The passage is referred to by Driver as illustrating the use of a certain phrase, but not noticed as contravening his statement that the Law of Moses was not written till centuries later.

Again, Joshua xxiv. 26: "Joshua wrote these words in the book of the Law of God."

It is impossible to say what book can be intended here, if it is not the one of which Moses said in Deuteronomy, "Take

this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee" (Deut. xxxi. 26).

I might, of course, refer at once to the statements in Deuteronomy concerning the authorship of this same book. But I prefer to deal with Deuteronomy by itself later on. It contains the fundamental rules for the formation of the Canon of Holy Scripture, rules which govern both the Old Testament and the New. And this fact is so intimately connected both with the date and the authorship, that it seems best to take them together.

ALLEGATION IV

The Divine authority of Holy Scripture is denied by Professor Driver, because in a series of passages from Samuel to Malachi Holy Scripture affirms, what Driver denies, the authorship of Moses as a writer.

FOR the present, then, I continue the series of passages from the later Books of the Old Testament which attest the date and authorship of the written Law.

Next, as to Samuel.

"Samuel told the people the requirement of the Kingdom, and wrote it in the Book, and laid it up before the Lord” (1 Sam. x. 25).

There certainly was a book laid up before the Lord in his day, and it was a law-book, and it contained the requirement of the Kingdom. If it were not that I am now concerned with the testimony of the Old Testament Scriptures to the written Law,

I should call attention to the plain indications of the observance of what is written in Deuteronomy in the story of Samuel and Saul: how carefully Saul removed the wizards and witches, and dealers with familiar spirits, out of the land; according to the section of Deuteronomy entitled "Judges and Officers," which contains the law regarding the Kings and Prophets: how particular he was to forbid eating with the blood. How extremely probable it is that he received from Samuel the copy of the Law which Moses commanded to be given to every King: how the very fact that the elders appealed to Samuel to choose the King points to the same law in Deuteronomy xvii.: how his choice by the lot, which fell upon the very man whom the Lord brought to Samuel, makes him "the LORD'S anointed." But since there is no appeal to a Written Law in Samuel, except by the indirect reference in 1 Samuel x. 25, I forbear to press these points only remarking that the undesigned coincidences between Samuel and the Penta