...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...

...thine oxen. 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, thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go up by steps into my altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon." The...

...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...

...altars: " 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, 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,v " 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...

...bless thee. 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, thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon....

...bless thee. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone : for 26 Neither shalt tliqu go up by steps rato mine altar, that my nakedness be not discovered thereon....

...meaning in it : " And if thou wilt make me an altar 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...

...of Moses : — ' If thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shall not build it of hewn stone ; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.' (Ex. xx 25.) This analogy of tradition is especially noticed in a remarkable article in a philosophical...

...ritual, that the altar of God should be without carved work — of earth, or of unhewn stone ; '• if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.' Ex. xx. 25. In fact, if the first rule be observed, the second cannot be infringed. True feeling always...