Ivi INTRODUCTION. 



another given by David to Solomon, which 

 it is expressly stated he had by the Spirit, 

 and which Jehovah made him understand in 

 writing (or commit to writing) by his hand 

 upon him. 1 Now, if these holy places were 

 erected after a pattern divinely furnished, 

 that pattern doubtless was significant, and 

 intended to answer some important purpose. 

 The great end which the Deity had in view 

 by the selection of the Israelitish nation, was 

 to prevent all knowledge of himself, as the 

 Creator and Governor of the world, from 

 being totally obliterated from the minds of 

 men, and to keep alive the expectation of 

 the promised seed, who was to effect the 

 great deliverance of mankind from the yoke 

 and consequences of sin, and the dominion 

 of Satan. Had it not been for this step, the 

 worship of those powers and intermediate 

 agents by which God acts upon the earth 

 and the world at large, and produces all the 

 phenomena observable in the physical uni- 

 verse; of their symbols; or of deified men 

 and women, would have entirely superseded 

 the worship of their Almighty Author, and 



i 1 Chron. xxvlii. 12, 19. 



