Exodus 31:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

i.e. The tables of the law, which was the witness of God's will and Israel's duty. See Exodus 16:34. Tables of stone; whereby was signified both the durable and perpetual obligation of the moral law, whereas the ceremonial law was to end with the Jewish polity at Christ's coming; and the stoniness of men's hearts by nature, in which the law of God could not be written but by a Divine and omnipotent hand. Written with the finger of God, i.e. with the power or Spirit of God, by comparing Matthew 12:18; not by any art of man, but immediately by a Divine hand. BC 1491

Exodus 31:18

18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.