LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

Verses 1-5." p. 58, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
Let this language of the apostle's be carefully considered.
It both introduces and settles one great division of
this question. It tells us definitely what, for a time,
constituted the sanctuary of the Lord. During the period
covered by the first covenant, which was a period of nearly
fifteen hundred years from Moses to Christ, while the tabernacle,
ordained as thus plainly described, was in existence,
there can be, in the face of these words of Paul's,
no controversy as to what constituted the sanctuary. Turning
to the records of those times, we find a more definite
mention of this unique structure, which, from its bearings
and relations in the temple of divine truth, deserves to be
examined with absorbing interest. p. 58, Para. 2, [LOOK-
ING].
Go back to the time when Israel was delivered from Egyptian
bondage. They had just passed to the farther shore of
the Red Sea, through the path the Lord had opened for them,
while the waters stood as a wall on either side. The Egyptians
essayed to do the same thing, and went into the midst
of the sea. God commanded Moses to stretch out his rod over
the sea, and the Egyptians were caught in the grip of the
returning flood, and perished at his feet. Listen to the
song of triumph which Moses then sang: "The Lord is my
strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my
God, and I will prepare him an habitation." Ex. 15:2. p.
58, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
Here is given the first intimation of that building which
the Lord was soon to cause to be erected, that he might
dwell among his people. In Ex. 15:17 the word "sanctuary"
occurs for the first time in the Bible: "Thou shalt bring
them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,
in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee
to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have
established." It has been inferred from this that the land
of Canaan, in which Israel were at length to be settled,
must be the sanctuary. But it should be borne in mind that
the language here used is pronounced in the exhilaration of
triumphant song, and all the figures of poetry are freely
allowable. The word "sanctuary" is by metonymy applied to
the place where Israel were to dwell, because there at last
the sanctuary was to be located, and would then constitute
the most important object therein. David, in Psalm 78, describes
this portion of Israel's history, and thus fur-