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Title: The Tabernacle; its history and structure
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Caldecott, W. Shaw
Subjects: Tabernacle
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Union press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Mount, and the descriptionhanded by David to Solomon, to have been God-given ^ Matters of chi-onology and of the date of the composition of portions ofthe Old Testament Scriptures lie beyond the range of these pages, thoughthe very practical natuie of these material reconstructions has an importantbearing on the historical character of the whole narratiYe, Eut see p. 101. HEBEEW CONSEEYATISM. 1G5 and revealed, the priests did not dare to alter or amendeither of them in anj^ particular in which escape waspossible. It is in the force of this sentiment of traditionthat we now find our strongest ally in the endeavourto trace the evolution of the Herodian Temple from itsprototype of the Tabernacle. SCALE USED IN THE ACCOMPANYIXG DRAWING OFTHE TABERNACLE (With details). 1. Cubit used in the plotting of the Tabernacle Court, 1 ft. 6 ins. 2. Cubit used in the erection of the Tabernacle and Tent, Ufeet. 3. Cubit used in the making of the gold-embroidered Yeil and the ten Curtains, 10*8 inches.
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SIZE OF THE TABERNACLE COURT. 167 1. The Court of the Tabernacle. The books attributed to Moses uniformly speak, in thesingular number, of *the court in which the Tabernaclestood. This form of phraseology is, of course, perfectlycorrect, as the idea of the unity and equal sanctity of thewhole enclosed area was thus kept prominently beforethe mind. As a matter of fact, however, the enclosurefollowed the precedent of Egyptian temples, in whichthere were two square areas, the temple itself beingsituated in the rearmost of the two. In the delimitation of the Tabernacle courts or squares,they were placed as lying to the east and west of oneanother; and each of the areas measured fifty cubits oneach of its four sides. It is apparent that a cubit of18 inches, as the measure of distance, applied to the textof Exodus xxvii. 9-18, will give us an enclosed space of75 feet in width, by 150 feet in length. In this postulate we have the first positive result of therecovery of the surveyors cubit. H

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