FOOTNOTES
[1]. In this connection it is interesting and instructive to consider the significance of the name Bethel, a contraction of Beth Elohim, as applied by Jacob to the place where the presence of the Lord was manifest unto him. Said he, "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el." (Genesis 28:16-19; read verses 10-22.)
[2]. Exodus 36:7.
[3]. Hebrews 9:1-7; Leviticus chap. 16.
[4]. Exodus 25:22.
[5]. Exodus 40:34-38.
[6]. Joshua 18:1; see also 19:51; 21:2; Judges 18:31; I Samuel 1:3, 24; 4:3, 4.
[7]. I Chron. 21:29; II Chron. 1:3.
[8]. II Samuel 6:12; II Chron. 5:2.
[9]. II Samuel 7:2.
[10]. I Chron. 28:2, 3; compare II Samuel 7:1-13.
[11]. II Chron. 5:14; see also 7:1, 2, and compare Exodus 40:35.
[12]. I Kings 14:25, 26.
[13]. II Chron. 24:7.
[14]. II Kings 16:7-9, 17 and 18; see also II Chron. 28:24, 25.
[15]. II Chron. 36:18, 19; see also II Kings 24:13; 25:9.
[16]. Jeremiah 25:11, 12; 29:10.
[17]. Ezra, chaps. 1 and 2.
[18]. Ezra, chap. 6.
[19]. Ezra 3:12, 13.
[20]. Ezra 4:4-24.
[21]. Ezra 6:15-22.
[22]. Matt. 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6.
[23]. See Book of Mormon, II Nephi 5:16.
[24]. See Book of Mormon, III Nephi 11:1.
[25]. See the author's "The Great Apostasy," chap. IX.
[26]. See the author's "The Great Apostasy," chap. X.
[27]. See the author's "The Articles of Faith," Lecture I, and references thereto.
[28]. See the author's "The Articles of Faith," specifically Lecture I, and notes thereon.
[29]. See Doctrine and Covenants 36:8; 42:36; 133:2.
[30]. See Doctrine and Covenants 115:7-16.
[31]. See Doctrine and Covenants, Section 95.
[32]. See Doctrine and Covenants, Section 109.
[33]. See Doctrine and Covenants, 110:1-10.
CHAPTER II
SANCTUARIES IN EARLIER DISPENSATIONS
As understood and applied herein, the designation "temple" is restricted to mean an actual structure, reared by man, hallowed and sanctified for the special service of Deity, such service including the authoritative administration of ordinances pertaining to the Holy Priesthood, and not merely a place, however sacred the spot may have become. If sacred places were to be classed with sacred buildings as essentially temples, the category would include many a holy Bethel rarely considered as such. In the more extended application of the term, the Garden in Eden was the first sanctuary of earth, for therein did the Lord first speak unto man and make known the Divine law. So too, Sinai became a sanctuary, for the mount was consecrated as the special abode of the Lord while He communed with the prophet, and issued His decrees. The sanctity of such places was as that of Horeb, where God spake unto Moses from the midst of the flame; and where, as the man approached he was halted by the command: "Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."[[1]] A temple, however, is characterized not alone as the place where God reveals Himself to man, but also as the House wherein prescribed ordinances of the Priesthood are solemnized.