. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. s—and yet, after all, so little isreally distinct to the mind of the form and appearanceof this and other doors mentioned in the Scriptures,that we have thought it proper to seek the inform-ation which the antiquities of Egypt offer on this particular point, and have selected thefollowing examples of doors of different kinds. These illustrations (see next page)being designed chiefly to illustrate form, require little explanation. One of them (4) offersanother example of the application of two pilla
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. s—and yet, after all, so little isreally distinct to the mind of the form and appearanceof this and other doors mentioned in the Scriptures,that we have thought it proper to seek the inform-ation which the antiquities of Egypt offer on this particular point, and have selected thefollowing examples of doors of different kinds. These illustrations (see next page)being designed chiefly to illustrate form, require little explanation. One of them (4) offersanother example of the application of two pillars in front of the door, and the reader will bestruck by their correspondence in form to those of Jachin and Boaz. One has been introduced(7) as an example of a gate of an outer enclosure, and such may have been the gates to thecourts of the temple. Two of them (5 and 8) show the manner in which doors were fastened;and it may be remarked that, among the ancient Egyptians, doors were fastened and hungin the same manner as they are now in the East, which concurrence precludes any question as. [Obelisks in front of a Temple] • This is very, very wrong. By the part he took, Solomon assumed no priestly functions. Surely Mr. Bardwell must knowhow zealously the priesthood was guarded from the inteiference of even kingly pretensions. Signal and immediate visitations-death, paralysis, or leprosy, failed not to follow such assumption of the priestly functions as is here ascribed to Solomon. t ? Temples, Ancient and Modern. By W. Bardwell, Architect. 1837. Chap. Ill] SOLOMON. 513
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