114 HEREDITY. 



Moses made a tabernacle with three distinct com- 

 partments. The first was called sanctum sanctorum, 

 within which dwelt God, and there was a divine 

 light therein ; the second was sanctum, within which 

 stood a candlestick with seven lamps ; the third was 

 called atrium, the court, and it was under the open 

 heaven in the light of the sun. In the same figure 

 a Christian man is depicted. His spirit is sanctum 

 sanctorum, God's dwelling-place. His soul is sanc- 

 tum : there are seven lights ; that is, all kinds of 

 understanding, discrimination, knowledge, and per- 

 ception of bodily visible things. His body is atrium, 

 which is manifest to every man, that it may be seen 

 what he does and how he lives. Thus taught St. 

 Augustine also, and many an accredited Biblical 

 scholar before Luther. 



This Delitzsch who is speaking is a professor at 

 Leipsic University, and has written a renowned work 

 on Biblical Psychology. From beginning to end of 

 it he introduces as authority nothing but the Scrip- 

 tures, and he adopts this threefold division. By the 

 spirit is meant the conscience, or that portion of 

 human nature in which there is a light not of us, 

 although in us. We have spoken of the conscience 

 as containing something which is not of us, and we 

 might have used the word spirit in the same sense. 

 The sold is the link between spirit and body, and 

 contains all the physical powers except the con- 

 science. That triple division of man is Schoberlein's 

 also ; but it would matter very little whether it were 

 Schoberlein's or Delitzsch's, if it were not Biblical. 



