...not be offered with the Lord's sacrifice. And again the Lord saith, " Thou shalt not build an altar of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." Exod. xx. • 25. Therefore have a care of polluting the altar with your own tools, you that profess...

...table, or altar). In Exodus, chap. xx. verse 25, there is an injunction to erect their altars of unhewn stone ; " for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it;" yet, in some, I have observed a groove, or hollow, along the centre of the great stone, which was probably...

...confined the Jews to the use of unhewn stones in the building of their stone altars: " And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, " thou shalt not build...lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it:" but I am free to confess myself as attributing the total absence of art in the appearance of the stones,...

...of revelation ! Well might he say, " Search the scriptures : they testify of me."....John v. 39. " If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." What can this mean ? To forbid thy pride and arrogance. Though thou art a lawcondemned sinner, yet...

...and I will bless thee, give thee the testimo25 ny of my approbation and acceptance. Andifthou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone ; for if 26 thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine...

...all places where 1 record my name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it...thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon....

...apostle John, expressly and repeatedly directs his discourse to old men, to of stone, thou shah not make it of hewn stone : for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." And the particular notice which is taken of the building of Solomon's temple, I. Kings, vi. 7, that...

...profaning them by our own self-derived intelligence. Hence it is divinely commanded :—' If thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it...lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.' (Exod. xx. 25.) As solidity is that quality in the stone which is representative of the TRUE, it follows,...

...building. 1 Kings vi. 7. The reason for this is perhaps best explained by Exod. xx. 25. "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it...of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it (the Temple), thou hast polluted it." 1 Antiq. 15, xi. 7. Where he adds also, that this testimony was...

...1 Kings vi. 7. The reason for this it perhaps best explained by Exod. xx. 95. " And if thou •wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it...of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it (the Temple}, thou hast polluted it." t (1) Antiq. 1 5, xi. 7. Where he adds also, that this testimony...