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ished and dedicated in the sixth year of Darius Hystaspes,<br />

B.C. 515, twenty-one years after its commencement. p. 79,<br />

Para. 1, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

When the foundation of this house was laid, the younger<br />

portion of the people shouted for joy; but the elders of<br />

the congregation, who had seen the former house, and remembered<br />

its glory, wept when they considered what would be<br />

lacking in this house. Ezra 3:10-13. Yet it was in the end<br />

to have greater glory than the former house; for unto it in<br />

the fulness of time, He who was the Desire of all nations,<br />

the Lord of life and glory, was to come. Haggai 2. p. 79,<br />

Para. 2, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

Things Lacking in the Second Temple. -- It was not with<br />

respect to size that the first house surpassed the latter;<br />

for this was of the same dimensions as the former, being<br />

built upon the same foundations. But those marks of the divine<br />

favor which were the main glory of the first temple,<br />

were wholly wanting in this. These the Jews reckon up in<br />

five particulars; namely, (1) the ark, and the mercy-seat<br />

which was upon it; (2) the shekinah, or divine presence<br />

over the mercy-seat; (3) the urim and thummim; (4) the holy<br />

fire from the altar; (5) the spirit of prophecy. p. 79,<br />

Para. 3, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

What Had Become of the Ark? -- Upon this question there<br />

has been expended much conjecture. That it, with the other<br />

larger furniture of the sanctuary, was not carried to Babylon<br />

is generally admitted; as, if it had been, it would<br />

have been brought back with the other sacred treasures<br />

which had been carried thither (Ezra 1:8-11), and some mention<br />

would without doubt have been made of it. It is believed<br />

by some that it was hidden away and preserved by<br />

Jeremiah. A passage in the book of Maccabees gives much<br />

countenance to this view. The record says that Jeremy the<br />

prophet, "being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and<br />

the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain<br />

where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God. And<br />

when Jeremy came thither, he found an hollow cave, wherein<br />

he laid the tabernacle and the ark, and the altar of incense,<br />

and so stopped the door. And some of those that followed<br />

him came to mark the way, but they could not find it.<br />

Which, when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As<br />

for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God<br />

gather his people again together, and receive them unto<br />

mercy." 2 Mac. 2:4-7. p. 80, Para. 1, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].

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