...emblem employed in the command relative to building the temple, belongs to the spiritual temple — " If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. An Arminian touch is a polluting touch. A pharisaic touch is a polluting touch. A yea-and-nay interference...

...unto thee, and I 25 will bless thee. And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build 7. 26 Neither shall thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness ba not discovered theroon...

...Scripture you know, in Exodus, where it says, ' If thou make me an altar of stone thou sbalt not build it of hewn stone; for, if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it ; ' and this here bit of granite has never been cut by no tool." He had invested it with more solemnity...

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...unhewn stone altars in Exodus 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, thou hast polluted it." And again, in Deuteronomy xxvii. 5, 6: "And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God,...

...such as idolaters used : unwrought stone seemed most suited, too, for the service of the Creator. ' If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it' ' Neither shall thon go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.'...

...come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 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." This rule was also to keep them as far as possible from temptations to idolatry. The altars were to...

...thee, and I will * 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 m thy nakedness be not discovered thereon....

...who observed the command of the law : " If thou wilt make rue an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone : for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thon hast polluted it." (Exodus, chap, ix.) It was long a controversy, idle enough as such controversies...

...altar was formed ? An altar of common stones. Were not these stones hewn into shape ? No. God said, if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it — v. 25. What may we learn by this ? That man has no right to worship God after his own devices ;...