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18 If it be God's law, as given at Mount Sinai in writing, it must have been and will be His law through all time and eternity, for He is unchangeable, and with Him all is one vast present, so that it is binding on all mankind throughout time.

Besides, what do the physiologists at the present day think of the Levitical code? They think that it is the best sanitary and social code ever produced. As, then, the moral law of God is unchangeable and always in force, so we find that the whole Church of Christ has kept it intact, as we have seen in this particular instance of the forbidden marriage with a deceased wife's sister.

But in this case it may be said that most if not all, nations allow this marriage.

Does that dispense with the law of God? Decidedly not.

Did the cases of Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon, dispense with God's law? Decidedly not, for the practice of fallen man can never interpret the law of God aright. Were the practice of fallen man right, there would be no need of the Law. Were there no disobedience or sin, there would be no law.

The state of men, by the light of the Law at its re-promulgation at Mount Sinai, shows to us their forgetfulness or neglect of God's law by tradition, as handed down from Paradise. Let me ask, What was the proportion of the Israelites