CHAPTER II. 

 THE ONENESS OF THE TABERNACLE. 



"And it shall be one tabernacle." EXODUS xxvi. 6. 



BEING a work, the tabernacle must, like every 

 other work, have been designed as well as 

 executed. Scripture presents to us this twofold view 

 of it ; shows it to us in plan and in progress. We are 

 taken up with Moses to the Mount, and there we see 

 unfolded before us the pattern as it existed in the 

 Divine mind. This architectural plan is a grand whole. 

 Notwithstanding the many separate parts of which it 

 is composed, it exhibits the most complete structural 

 harmony the most perfect mutual consistency. It is 

 to be one tabernacle not in the sense of singleness 

 and uniqueness, as if God had forbidden more than 

 one tabernacle to be constructed for His service but 

 in the sense of a real and profound unity. By the 

 golden taches or clasps binding together the curtains 

 which covered it, the whole structure was made one 

 tent or tabernacle, and all its parts and objects were 

 united. Unity is the hall-mark which God stamps 

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