According to the first writing, the ten commandments. — The words written on the second tables were the same which had been written on the first.

In the day of the assembly. — Or, in New Testament language, “the day of the Church.” The Pentecost of the Old Testament was the day when “the letter” was given; the Pentecost of the New Testament was the day of the “Spirit that giveth life.” Each of these aspects of God’s covenant produced a Church after its kind.

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