10.  Once more, in the twenty-third verse of the same chapter, Christ refers to the fact that their children received circumcision on the Sabbath day, that “the law of Moses be not broken.”

The sum of Christ’s testimony to the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch is before us.  Ten times our Lord asserts in the passages quoted that the law given in the Pentateuch was the “law of Moses.”  He affirms that in that law “he wrote of me.”  From Genesis to Revelation there is continued affirmation by prophets, apostles, and by Christ, who can not lie, that the five books of the Pentateuch are the books of Moses, under the guiding hand of the Spirit of God.

A recent writer, who has gone over the testimony of the Bible itself against the critics, says:  “We find in them (the writers of the Old Testament) more than eight hundred quotations from, or references to, the first five books of the Bible, and not a hint is given that Moses is not their author,” but he is everywhere recognized as the author, under God.

Witnesses multiply with every restudy of the book, proving the Mosaic authorship of the first five books of The Book.  “What shall we say, then, to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us?”

V. THE ATTACK ON THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS.

"The Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd and of the flock.”  Lev. i.  I, 2.

"And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon.”  Lev. ii. 2.

"And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, ... he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about,” Lev. iii. 1, 2.

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, ... let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.”  Lev. iv. 1, 2, 3.

"His truth endureth to all generations.”  Psa. c. 5.

Having considered the critical assault on the Pentateuch as a whole, attention should be called to the special criticisms on the book of Leviticus.  A prominent representative of the school of critics affirmed in his recent lectures at Long Beach, California, that the Hebrews had no literature until their connection with the Babylonians while in captivity, that their literature was developed during their agricultural