Before the covenant could be formally reestablished, before Israel could be replaced in the position forfeited by the idolatry of the golden calf, …

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first
Which may be an emblem of the ministry of men, which God makes …

When God made man in his own image, the moral law was written in his heart, by the finger of God, without outward means. But since the covenant the…