* 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
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