. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. the sanctuary were closely similar, if not identical, with those of the most holy placeof the tabernacle,—with the omission, in the latter, of the superfluities and idolatrous appen-dages which the former offered. While, therefore, the sculptures of Egypt, in which some ofthese ancient sanctuaries are represented, afford the only discoveral)le materials for makingout the outline forms and some of the details of the ark, and that which belonged to it, weshall at the same time become aware of the sim
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. the sanctuary were closely similar, if not identical, with those of the most holy placeof the tabernacle,—with the omission, in the latter, of the superfluities and idolatrous appen-dages which the former offered. While, therefore, the sculptures of Egypt, in which some ofthese ancient sanctuaries are represented, afford the only discoveral)le materials for makingout the outline forms and some of the details of the ark, and that which belonged to it, weshall at the same time become aware of the simplifying and expurgatory process by whichthese things were fitted for the use of the Hebrew people. Our further observations must take the form of a commentary on the cuts which we nowproduce, and on which we rely for the proof of the statements we have made. • Exofl. XXV. 17—21, xxvi. 34, xxxvii. 6. t Psal. Ixxx. 1. J Psal. xcix. 1. § Psul. xcix. 5. II Exod. xxv. 16 ; 1 Kiiig:^, viii. 9. •! Exocl. xxxi. 18. ** Exod. XXX. G. tt Exod. xvi. 32—34. 248 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book Sluine in its Sanctuary.] In this very striking engraving the shrine (10) is represented at rest upon the ark in the sanctuary of the temple. The anomalous fea-ture is the boat, which, in this and most ofthe other examples, rests immediately uponthe ark, and supports the covered shrine. Toexplain this, it should be observed that someof the Egyptian gods were carried across, orup or down, the Nile, in splendid boats, on par-ticular festivals, and were sometimes thusabsent several days from their temples. Fromthis circumstance, the shrine of such gods wasusually represented as in a boat, and in thatform was carried about in land was nothing of this in the Hebrewtabernacle; and as most of the idolatrous sym-bols are connected with the boat, we at oncesee what a great difference this omission musthave produced. Having given this dispensingexplanation concerning the boat, the
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