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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: July 21, 1921
Another text where the use is mentioned of tables, or tablets, for writing upon is found in Habakkuk 2: 2, and reads thus Write the vision in a book and make it plain upon tables. Interpreting this passage in the light of the quotation from Isaiah 30: 8, the meaning apparently is that the vision should be written upon tables, or tablets, that it Should be for a time to come for ever and for ever. Since the evident purpose in writing Isaiah's prophecies on tablets was to ensure their uncorrupted preservation for 'ages, why should we not conclude that the vision given to Habakkuk was written on tablets with a like object also in view, and, consequently, was to be engraved on metal, which, it goes without saying, would be of a kind identical with that used by Isaiah, namely, brass, in order that the whole book or collection of sacred plates might be of uniform material. It is to be noticed, too, that it is only when the order is given to write the vision on tablets that the command to make it plain is expressed. It is not illogical, therefore, to conclude that the injunction concerning the plainness with which the writing on tablets was to be executed, was but another way of telling Habakkuk to take witnesses or assistants along with him when he did the recording, just as we have seen that Isaiah did in order that his prophecies might be made plain when written on metal plates. Habakkuk was not directed to make the vision plain when he wrote it in the book which, doubtless being intended for public service, would be written in the common language of the people, of which the prophet very probably had a very ready knowledge, and so could himself do the work acceptably to the Lord; but there evidently was some special reason why Habakkuk was commanded to make the vision plain when writing upon tablets, and the explanation of the matter as just given seems quite plausible in view of what Isaiah was commanded to do when he wrote certain of his prophecies on metal plates.
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