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42 judgment of the Jewish people, in one of their most corrupt periods, at the distance of 1500 years from the first publication of the law by Moses.

4. He represents the judgment of the Scribes and Pharisees as being incomparably superior to that of the Karaites, and assigns as a proof, (referring to what our Saviour says of them,) "They had Moses' authority," Matt. 23:2—as if our blessed Lord intended, by his remark, that his disciples should place implicit reliance on the interpretation of the law by those teachers whom, in this very chapter, he upbraids as "blind leaders of the blind!"

5. Speaking of Acts 15:28, 29, 1 Cor. 10:27–32, he says, "These were not given as precepts, but as counsels." "Rom. 2:14," he says, "does clearly affirm that the law of Moses was not given to the Gentiles." Surprising! The apostle is speaking of the moral law, that law which was written on the hearts of the Gentiles; and the Chief Justice asserts, the apostle here teaches us that it was not given to the Gentiles! It had not been revealed to them as it had been revealed to the Jews; but, beyond