TABLES OF STONE, The, Symbolism of, Hassell Moses and Joshua, coming down the mountain, saw what the people were doing, and Moses was so filled with anger that he threw down and broke the two tables of stone on which God had written the Ten Commandments . . . . typifying that the first use which man makes of God’s law is to break it . . . . God gave to Moses other tables of stone, like unto the first, and required him to deposit them in the ark for safe keeping. The first represented our safety in Adam, which failed; the second represented our safety in Christ, which cannot fail. (Hassell)