* I have found.
   This certainly was a genuine copy of the divine law, and
   probably the autograph of Moses, as it is said, in the
   parallel place of Chronicles, to be the book of the law of the
   Lord by Moses.  It is not probable that this was the only copy
   of the law in the land, or that Josiah had never before seen
   the book of Moses; but the fact seems to be, that this was the
   original of the covenant renewed by Moses in the plains of
   Moab, and now being unexpectedly found, its antiquity, the
   occasion of its being made, the present circumstances of the
   people, the imperfect state in which the reformation was as
   yet, after all that had been done, would all concur to produce
   the effect here mentioned on the mind of the pious Josiah.

  De 31:24-26  2Ch 34:14,15-28