Tabernacle in the Wilderness 45 nacle, when so much positive evidence exists in favor of it, reminds one of what Lord Byron says with regard to Bishop Berkeley’s philosophical denial of the existence of matter: “When Bishop Berkeley says it is no matter. "Then ’tis no matter what he says.” But if the Tabernacle in the wilderness did really exist, then what becomes of the peculiar theory of the higher critics ? That necessarily falls to the ground, or is proven to be untrue; for, as was shown in the early part of this discussion, the entire critic hypothesis rests upon, or has for one of its main pillars, the assumed non-existence of the Tabernacle, or what amounts to the same thing, the alleged late origin of the Mosaic ritualistic law. Both of these premises being now demonstrated to be unsound, the Tabernacle “which Moses made in the wilderness” will very likely remain where the Bible puts it—among the great undeniable facts of the world’s history, and not, as the critics would have it, among fictions or forgeries.* ♦For Addenda to this article, see pp. 120-125.
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