Tabernacle in the Wilderness 155 the prototype, of the temple at Jerusalem" (Proleg., Eng. trans., p. 37). So also Graf, who preceded Wellhausen in higher-critic work, affirms that the Tabernacle is only "a diminutive copy of the Temple," and that "all that is said about this structure in the middle books of the Pentateuch is merely post-exilic accretion." Once more, to hear from a more recent authority, Dr. A. R. S. Kennedy, in Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, has these wordsu: "The attitude of modern Old Testament scholarship to the priestly legislation as now formulated in the Pentateuch, and in particular to those sections of it which deal with the sanctuary and its worship, is opposed to the historicity of P's [that is, the old Mosaic] Tabernacle." The same or a similar representation is given by Benzinger in the Encyclopaedia Biblica; and in s f i a s c t t en t t hi h s ig is h , er an c d rit m ic u s st to n w ec a e r s d sa t r h il e y m be a , tte th r e u a n t d ti e t r ud c e on o s f id a e l r l at c i o o n n . For it would never do for the adherents of the critic theory t n o ac a le d , m w it it t h ha a t ll aw its ay ela b b ac o k ra i t n e t r h it e ua o l l , d a M nd os w ai i c th ti t m he es lo th ft e y T m ab o e r r a l and spiritual ideas embodied in it, could have existed; because that would be equivalent to admitting the falsity of their own doctrine. Accordingly with one voice the critics all, or nearly all, stoutly proclaim that no historicity whatever must be allowed to Moses' Tabernacle. VI. CER AIN GREAT PRESUMPTIO:t\-.S To come then to the actual discussion of our subject, it might be said, in the first place, that there are certain great p cr r i e t s ic um th p e t o io r n y s a w s h tr ic u h e. lie in the way of our accepting the higher 1. One of these presumptions is, that this whole critic hypothesis goes on the assumption that what the Bible tells us regarding the real existence of the Tabernacle is not true, or, in other words, that in a large part of its teachings the Bible speaks falsely. Can we believe thatu? Most assuredly
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