In Deuteronomy, Moses in reciting the destruction of the Tables and what followed, recounts that Jehovah, in desiring him to come up and receive the Law on the two Tables which he was to make, tells him to make an ark for them, the former are thus supposed presented without ark before the people, but it having been demonstrated that they were incapable of the Law, it is shut up in Christ—afterward written on their hearts. This gives a very remarkable contrast of the place of the Law after failure, or man being a sinner; before, Moses carries them down to Israel and breaks them in the presence of Israel before their eyes—now, it is provided, in giving it, that it should be shut up in the ark of the covenant, as in fact it is in Christ, though afterward it may be written in the heart when He owns the people. This analogical testimony, if it be justly understood, is of very great force.