FOOTNOTES

[1]. Exodus 3:5.

[2]. Exodus 16:32-34.

[3]. See Exodus 31:18; 25:16; 32:15; 34:28, 29.

[4]. Exodus 33:7-11.

[5]. In the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible this sanctuary is called the Tabernacle of the Congregation; in the Revised Version it is designated the Tent of Meeting; preponderance of authority is in favor of the latter reading.

[6]. Exodus 24:9, 10, 18; read the entire chapter.

[7]. Exodus 25:1-9. For details of the building and furnishings of the Tabernacle of the Congregation see Exodus chapters 25-31, more particularly chapter 25, which account is in part repeated in 36:8-38.

[8]. Exodus 36:5-7.

[9]. The cubit is an ancient measure of length, the value of which varied in different countries and at different times. As the term occurs in the Bible, it denotes varying lengths. In line with modern encyclopedias, Bible dictionaries, etc., the length herein adopted is one foot six inches. See Encyclopaedia Britannica. Smith's Bible Dictionary, etc.

[10]. Exodus 37:1-9; compare 25:10-22.

[11]. See Exodus 37:10-29; compare 25:23-40.

[12]. Exodus 40:34-38.

[13]. Exodus 25:8.

[14]. See Exodus chapter 28.

[15]. See Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (Barnum's ed.), art. "Tabernacle."

[16]. Joshua 18:1-3; 19:51; see also 21:2; Judges 18:31; I Sam. 1:3, 24; 4:3, 4.

[17]. See I Samuel 4:10-18.

[18]. I Samuel 4:22.

[19]. See I Samuel 21:1-6.

[20]. See I Samuel 7:1, 2.

[21]. See I Chron. 21:28-30; compare II Chron. 1:3-6.

[22]. I Samuel 4:10-22; also chapters 5 and 6; and 7:1-2.

[23]. II Samuel 6:1-12; see also I Chron. chapter 13.

[24]. II Samuel 6:17; see also I Chron. 15:1, and 16:1.

[25]. See I Kings 3:15 and II Chron. 1:3, 4.

[26]. See I Kings 8:1-4.

[27]. I Chron. 17:1; see also II Samuel 7:1, 2.

[28]. I Chron. 17:4, 5.

[29]. See I Chron. 22:8; compare 28:3; and I Kings 5:3.

[30]. See I Chron. 22:1-5.

[31]. II Samuel 24:15-25; see also I Chron. 21:15-17; and II Chron. 3:1.

[32]. See I Chron. 21:18-30; compare II Samuel 24:18-25.

[33]. I Chron. 22:5-19; see also 28:1-8; 29:1-7.

[34]. I Chron. 28:11-13.

[35]. II Chron. 2:5; see also the entire chapter.

[36]. See I Kings 5:11; and II Chron. 2:10, 15 15.

[37]. I Kings 5:13-18.

[38]. I Kings 6:7; compare Deuteronomy 27:5, 6.

[39]. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book VIII: chaps. 2, 3, 4.

[40]. See II Chron. 3:4.

[41]. See I Kings 7:13-22.

[42]. I Kings 6:15-18, 29.

[43]. Verses 19-22.

[44]. Verse 35.

[45]. Verses 5, 6.

[46]. Ezekiel 41:6, 7.

[47]. For specifications as to the courts, see I Kings 6:36; compare 7:12; see also II Kings 23:12; II Chron. 4:9; 33:5 33:5.

[48]. I Kings 7:23-26; II Chron. 4:2; see also II Kings 25:13; compare Jeremiah 52:17.

[49]. I Kings 7:39.

[50]. I Kings 7:27-39; compare II Chron. 4:6.

[51]. I Kings 8:10, 11.

[52]. I Kings 8:56, 57; for the dedicatory services in full see the entire chapter.

[53]. Verse 66.

[54]. II Kings 14:13, 14.

[55]. II Kings 16:10-18: see also II Chron. 28:24.

[56]. II Kings 21:1-7; see also II Chron. 33:1-7.

[57]. I Kings 15:18.

[58]. II Kings 12:18.

[59]. II Kings 18:15, 16.

[60]. See II Kings 12:2-14; compare II Chron. 24:7-14; see also II Kings 22:3-7; compare II Chron. 34:8-13.

[61]. II Kings 24:13; 25:9-17; II Chron. 36:7, 19; compare Isaiah 64:11; Jeremiah 27:16, 19-22; 28:3; 52:13, 17-23; Lamentations 2:7; 4:1; and Ezra 1:7.

[62]. See Daniel, chapter 5.

[63]. See Ezekiel, chapters 40 to 43.

[64]. So designated in the Revised Version.

[65]. Ezekiel 40:47.

[66]. Verses 44-46.

[67]. Ezekiel, chapters 44-48.

[68]. Ezekiel 43:10-12.

[69]. Jeremiah 25:8-11; see also 29:10.

[70]. See Jeremiah 25:12-14. See also the author's "The Articles of Faith," Lecture XVII, "The Dispersion of Israel."

[71]. Ezra 1:1-4.

[72]. Ezra 6:3-4.

[73]. Ezra 1:7-11.

[74]. See Ezra 2:61-63.

[75]. Ezra 3:1-6.

[76]. Ezra 3:8-13.

[77]. Ezra 4:1-6; see also verses 7-24, and chapter 5.

[78]. Ezra 6:11, 12; see also verses 7-10.

[79]. Ezra 6:21.

[80]. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews: XIII, 13:5.

[81]. Compare Exodus 20:25; Deut. 27:5; Joshua 8:31.

[82]. See Haggai 2:1-4; compare Zech. 4:10.

[83]. See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, 5:3-5.

[84]. See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, chaps. 6 and 7; and II Maccabees 2:19; 10:1-8; see also John 10:22.

[85]. See Matt. 2:1-10, 16-18. "A little child made the great Herod quake upon his throne. When he knew that the magi were come to hail their King and Lord, and did not stop at his palace, but passed on to a humbler roof, and when he found that they would not return to betray this child to him, he put to death all the children in Bethlehem that were under two years old. The crime was great; but the number of the victims, in a little place like Bethlehem, was small enough to escape special record among the wicked acts of Herod from Josephus and other historians, as it had no political interest."—Smith's Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible, art. "Jesus Christ," page 466.

[86]. John 2:20.

[87]. See John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12.

[88]. Matt. 21:12-13; see also Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45; John 2:14.

[89]. See Acts 3:2, 10.

[90]. See Mark 12:41-44.

[91]. Compare Exodus 20:26.

[92]. See Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., art. "Temple."

[93]. Matt. 21:12; compare Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45.

[94]. See Luke 2:22-38.

[95]. Luke 2:42-50. See also John 2:13-23; 5:1; 12:12-20.

[96]. Luke 19:47; John 10:22-39.

[97]. Matt. 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45.

[98]. John 2:19-22; see also Matt. 26:61; 27:40; Mark 14:58; 15:29.

[99]. Acts 6:13.

[100]. See Acts 21:26-40.

[101]. Mark 13:1, 2. See also Matt. 24:1, 2; Luke 21:5, 6.

[102]. Josephus, Wars of the Jews, Book VI; 4:5, 8. For a detailed and graphic account of the destruction of the Temple see chapters 4 and 5 in their entirety.

[103]. "He actually began excavations, but his workmen were driven in great panic from the spot, by terrific explosions and bursts of flame. The Christians regarded the occurrence as miraculous; and Julian himself, it is certain, was so dismayed by it that he desisted from the undertaking."—P. V. N. Meyers, General History, page 334.

CHAPTER III
NEED OF TEMPLES IN THE PRESENT DISPENSATION

Among the numerous sects and churches professing Christianity, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands alone in the teaching and practise of temple ministration. The devotion of this people to the sacred labor of building temples and administering therein the saving ordinances of the Gospel has attracted the attention and aroused the wonder of both philosopher and layman. It is not enough to attempt an explanation of this singular and stupendous sacrifice by ascribing it to assumed and unproved fanaticism; the earnest investigator, the careful observer, and even the cursory reader, indeed, if he be honest, admits that beneath this devotion is a deeply-seated and an abiding faith. It cannot be affirmed that the Latter-day Saints build temples as monuments of communal wealth nor in the pride of human aggrandisement; for we find them thus arduously engaged even while bread was scarce and clothing scant among them; and throughout their history the people have looked upon their temples as edifices belonging to the Lord, and upon themselves as stewards entrusted with the custody of the consecrated properties. Nor can it be said that this Church builds temples as other sects erect chapels, churches, cathedrals, and synagogues; for the Church has the equivalent of these, and indeed the meeting-houses and places of public worship maintained by the Latterday Saints are proportionately greater in number than are those of other denominations. Moreover, as already stated, these temples are not used as places of common assembly, nor as houses of general and congregational service.

Why, then, does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints build and maintain temples? In answer let the following pertinent facts be carefully considered.