The Fundamentals - Torrey - X - Chapter 8 continued (The tabernacle in the wilderness: did it exist?)

Required reading
The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 8 (The tabernacle in the wilderness: did it exist?) by reading up to the paragraph beginning with the heading, 'XI. Objections of the higher critics'.

My summary
This week Heagle continues to provide evidence for the existence of the tabernacle.

Firstly he goes through the Biblical evidence provided by:
(i) First Kings;
(ii) Chronicles;
(iii) Samuel;
(iv) Jeremiah and Psalm 78;
(v) Judges and Joshua;
(vi) Deuteronomy.

Then Heagle briefly sums up the history of the tabernacle and its intimate connection with other Biblical history.

What grabbed me
In the evidence from Samuel, Heagle made a bit of a strange comment: 'And, finally, as perhaps the crowning feature of this array of evidence for the genuineness of the text under consideration, it can be affirmed that, for English readers at least, there exists one authority, easy to be consulted, which would seem to put beyond all reasonable doubt the genuineness of this text. That authority is our Revised English Version of the Scriptures a literary work that in point of scholarship and general reliability stands perhaps second to none produced in recent years. And now, if anybody will take the trouble to consult this Revised Version, he will see that this entire disputed passage is retained, or that the many eminent scholars, both English and American, who wrought on this translation are agreed that the words, "tent of meeting," or ohel moed, as in Hebrew, are genuine, and properly belong to this passage.'

Just because an English translation affirms Heagle's translation, doesn't mean it's right. 

I think it would be much better to quote the original and be done, rather than place such weight upon a translation.

Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 8 (The tabernacle in the wilderness: did it exist?).

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.