Identifier: dictionaryof186003smit (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible ..
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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therto ven-tured to suggest such an origin for that structure. From Assyria ? Here too we are equally devoid of any authorityor tangible data, for though the probabilities cer-tainly are that the Jews would rather adopt a formfrom the kindred Assyrians than from the hatedstrangers whose land they had just left, we havenothing further to justify us in such an assumption. From Arabia ? It is possible that the Arabs may have usedmoveable tent-like temples. They were a peoplenearly allied in race with the Jews. Moses father-in-law was an Arab, and soipething he may haveseen there rnay have suggested the form he adopted.But beyond this we cannot at present go. ^ The only thing resembling it we know of is theHoly Tent of the Carthaginians, mentioned by DiodorusSiculus, XX. 65, which, in consequence of a sudden changeof wind at night blowing the flames from the altar onwhich victims were being sacrificed, towards rifv iepav(TKrjvriv, it took fire, a circumstance which spread such 1456 TEMPLE
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No. 6.—Tomb of Darius neai Persepolis. For the present, at least, it must suffice to kuowthat the form of the Temple was copied irom theTabernacle, and that any architectural ornamentsthat may have been .added were such as were usu-ally employed at that time in Palestine, and moreespecially at Tyre, whence most of the artificers wereobtahied who assisted in its erection. So far as the dimensioas above quoted are con-cerned, everything is as clear and as certain as any-thing; tliat can be predicated of any building ofwhich no remains exist, but beyond this there arecertain minor problems by no means so easy to re-solve, but fortunately they are of much less im-portance. The first is the Height.—That given in 1 K. vi. 2—of 30 cubits—is so reasonable in proportion to the other dimen-sions, that the matter might be allowed to restthere were it not for the assertion (2 Chi-, iii. 4)that the height, though apparently only of theporch, was 120 cubits =180 ieet (as nearly as may const

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