HISTORICITY OF THE MOSAIC TABERNACLE. 



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when the Lord stood free from all the limitations of His humiliation 

 — whatever they were — and spoke with full Divine knowledge, that 

 in the most explicit and emphatic terms He accredited the Books of 

 Moses as Divine. For then it was that, " beginning at Moses, and all 

 the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the 

 things concerning Himself." And again, referring back to His 

 previous teaching, "He said unto them, these are the words which I 

 spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be 

 fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, 

 and in the Psalms concerning me" — the well known three-fold 

 division of the Hebrew Canon. (Luke xxiv, 27, 44.) 



Professor Hull said : Though I am not in a position to speak on 

 the details of the question before the Meeting, I would like to say 

 that I have followed the line of march of the Exodus step by step 

 through the wilderness of Sinai and Arabia Petrsea, and I can con- 

 firm the absolute integrity and accuracy of the sacred writers ; 

 never was a description of a great migration so definite, clear, and 

 evidently true. I cannot separate the story of the Tabernacle from 

 its historical setting, and that I have been able to confirm by 

 personal experience. 



Anyone who reads, with a candid mind, the account in Exodus 

 xxiv-xxxvii cannot fail to come to the conclusion that the details of 

 events which took place at the foot of Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa) 

 were written by one who was a personal actor and spectator of the 

 events there described ; and amongst these were the directions given 

 to Moses by Jehovah for the construction of the Ark which was 

 henceforth to accompany the people through their journeyings into 

 the land of Canaan, and the presence of which is so deeply inter- 

 woven with their history. For myself I accept the account in 

 Exodus — whether dealing with miraculous or non-miraculous 

 matters, as I would that of any reliable historian. It is the only 

 source of our knowledge of these events, and the whole Jewish 

 nation is a standing witness to its truth. 



It is now so many years since my visit with the party sent out by 

 the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1883-4 that 

 many members of the Institute may not have had any opportunity 

 of becoming acquainted with its results; these will be found in 

 vol. xxi of the Journal of Transactions (for 1887-8), being the address 

 delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society. 



