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

Required reading
The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude Chapter 8 (The tabernacle in the wilderness: did it exist?).

My summary
Heagle continues to defend the existence of the tabernacle.

This week he answers objections.  Heagle sums up his work himself: 'And then, finally, to make our argument as complete as possible, we noticed, somewhat briefly and yet with considerable fullness, the many objections which the higher critics have raised against the Tabernacle's existence, showing that none of these objections is really valid, and turning the last one into a positive proof on our side of the question.'

Then an addenda provides various facts respecting places where the tabernacle was built or located.

What grabbed me
I liked Heagle's conclusion: 'And now, if there remains yet anything which needs to be said, it seems to us it is only the assertion that, whether the higher critics will admit it or not, the old Mosaic Tabernacle surely did exist. Or if there are persons who, in spite of all the numerous important testimonies which we have adduced from the Bible and other sources to the Tabernacle's historicity, still persist in denying such evidence, and in saying that the whole matter was only a priestly fiction, then what the Savior says, with respect perhaps to some of the skeptics living in his day, is quite applicable : "If they believe not Moses and the prophets, neither would they believe though one rose from the dead." Or, to state the case a little differently and somewhat humorously, it might be said that the fact of any person's denying the real existence of the Tabernacle, when so much positive evidence exists in favor of it, reminds one of what Lord Byron says with regard to Bishop Berkeley's philosophical denial of the existence of matter:  "When Bishop Berkeley says it is no matter. Then 'tis no matter what he says."'

Amen.

Next week's reading
Read Chapter 9 (The internal evidence of the fourth gospel).

Now it's your turn
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