. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ean passage to the Kedron. Un-der the altar a cavity, with a marble cover-ing, received the drink-offerings. On thenorth side wore several iron rings for secur-ing the victims; and there was a red lineround the middle to show where the bloodwas to be sprinkled, above or below it. The altar of incense was made of shittim-wood overlaid with gold; whence it is call-ed also the golden altar. It was a cubitin length and br
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ean passage to the Kedron. Un-der the altar a cavity, with a marble cover-ing, received the drink-offerings. On thenorth side wore several iron rings for secur-ing the victims; and there was a red lineround the middle to show where the bloodwas to be sprinkled, above or below it. The altar of incense was made of shittim-wood overlaid with gold; whence it is call-ed also the golden altar. It was a cubitin length and breadth, and two cubits had horns, occasionally sprinkled as thoseof the brazen altar. It had a top or 1 2 Chron. iv., 1.—* 2 Kings xvi., 10-16; 2 , 8; xxix., 18; xxxiii., 16.—Compare Ezra iii.,2, 3, with verses 9,10. roof, and a border of gold, and goldenrings, with wooden staves overlaid with gold,to carry it. It was to stand in the holyplace before the veil that is by the ark ofthe testimony. On this incense was to beburned every day; and once a year an atone-ment was to be made upon This is thealtar referred to in Isa. vi., 6; Eev. viii., 3, Altar of Incense. In Solomons Temple it was of cedar overlaidwith We have no notice of it at thebuilding of the second Temple; but later weare told in the Apocrypha that AntiochusEpiphanes took it away, and that JudasMaccabseus restored it or made another. There is no evidence that in the ApostolicChurch an altar was known; for the refer-ence in Heb. xiii., 10, is not to a piece ofecclesiastical furniture, but to the cross ofChrist. Bingham assures us that the termaltar and table were indifferently used in i Numb, iv., 11; Exnrl. xxx., 1-10; xl., 5.—21 Kingsvi., 20; IChrou. xxviii., IS. ALTAR 36 the primitive Church for the article onwhich the Eucharist was placed. This altaror table was, at all events, very simple inits structure, had no images upon or aboutit, not even the cross, apparently, until
Size: 1489px × 1679px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcen, bookdecade1870, booksubjectreligion, booksubjecttheology
