What About the Scroll of the Law that was Mislaid?

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I have more than once mentioned that Matthew 28:16-20 does not allow for the Church universal to lose an essential truth and therefore need a reformation.

But what about the "Reformation of Josias" - wasn't there an Old Testament precedent?

[4] And the king commanded Helcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel. [5] And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven. [6] And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people. [7] He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove. [8] And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue governor of the city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city. [9] However the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren. [10] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son or his daughter through fire to Moloch.

This is from IV Kings 23:rd chapter.

But we do know that these ills had not been universal.

There had always been a remnant, and while it had to hide, it is documented. The worst time was when Athalia was usurping, and this involved Joas and the then High Priest hiding.

[1] And Athalia the mother of Ochozias seeing that her son was dead, arose, and slew all the royal seed. [2] But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ochozias, took Joas the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse: and hid him from the face of Athalia, so that he was not slain. [3] And he was with her six years hid in the house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the land. [4] And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and taking the centurions and the soldiers, brought them in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made a covenant with them: and taking an oath of them in the house of the Lord, shewed them the king's son: [5] And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do:

IV Kings chapter 11.

And it seems, she only reigned for six years.

Reign, c. 841 – 835 BCE
Predecessor, Ahaziah, her son
Successor, Joash, her grandson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaliah

It is not conceivable that the Deuteronomy scroll had been neglected all the time since King Solomon, even if it was disobeyed.

And it was mainly disobeyed by misdirected tolerance against the false cults, which involved consecrating sons or daughters to Moloch through fire.

Hence, no, one cannot parallel the forgotten Deuteronomy scroll with a supposed "forgetting of the Gospel" during the Middle Ages and that one ending with Luther or Zwingli or someone taking the role of Helcias and Saphan.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Stephen of Hungary
2.IX.2022