Moses gave the law, and refers to one of the commandments, "Thou shalt not kill": "Did

not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to

kill Me" (John 7: 19).

At the end of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the Lord says: "If they hear not

Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead"

(Luke 16: 31). Here the standing testimony of the written Word is presented as greater

evidence of truth than the mighty miracle of raising the dead. Let the written revelation

of God take the supreme place with us that it had with our Lord.

In the foregoing quotation, not only is Moses mentioned, but with him, "the prophets".

When we deal with the question of the canon of Scripture, we shall find that "the

prophets", according to the accepted arrangement, is the title of the second portion of the

O.T. Scriptures. Christ does not speak of the prophet merely in a collective way: He

refers to several individual prophets and quotes their writings. He speaks of Isaiah the

prophet, of the fulfillment of his prophecy both in Himself, and the people, and

characterizes the prophecy as Scripture:--

The Lord also speaks of Daniel the prophet:  "When ye therefore shall see the

abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place"

(Matt. 24: 15, 16). The second quotation of Daniel in Matthew is set in a scene of the

utmost solemnity. The high priest before whom Christ stands upon trial for His life

speaks: "I adjure Thee by the living God, that Thou tell us whether Thou be the Christ,

the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you,

hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in

the clouds of heaven" (Matt. 26: 63, 64).

At this solemn moment Christ quotes from Dan. 7:, and surely the charge of

blasphemy is not too severe against those who would dare to say that the Lord in the hour

of His trial quoted with approval the writings of a forger?

He speaks also of Jonah the prophet: "The sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah

was three days and three nights . . . . . so shall the Son of man . . . . . the men of Nineveh

shall rise in judgment . . . . . they repented at the preaching of Jonah" (Matt. 12: 39-41).

We are told that the book of Jonah is allegory and myth. Could the Lord have declared

that men who had no existence except in myth would rise in the judgment, and that these

mythical men repented at the preaching of a mythical prophet? Moreover, if the three

days and three nights of Jonah's experience be but fiction and not fact, what of the

resurrection? The "as" and the "so" go together.