Lessons for Bible Students.
(PROPIIICY OF DANIEL, PP, 43-51.) 1. What is Walker's definition or the term, Sanctuary? 2. How does Webster define it? 3. What does Cruden call it? 4. How is it defined in the Bible? 5. Is the earth the sanctuary? 6. How many times does the word, sanctuary, occur in the Bible? 7. Is it in a single instance applied to the earth? 8. What then is the only authority for the view that the earth is the Sanctuary? 9. Is the earth a dwelling place for God, or a holy or sacred place? 10. To what does the word sanctuary refer in almost every instance of its use? 11. What do those do, therefore, who teach that the earth is the sanctuary? 12. Will the earth after it has been purified by fire, become the sanctuary? 14. Is the church the sanctuary? 15. Does the Bible ever call the church the sanctuary? 16. God calls another object his sanctuary; and what does he uniformly associate with that sanctuary? 17. What is the only inference that has been urged in favor of the view that the church is the sanctuary? 18. What text may be urged by some to support it? 19. What would this text, at most, prove? 20. Remembering that God chose Jerusalem as the place of his sanctuary, what other Psalm will fully explain this text? 21. But if a text could be produced to show that the church is the sanctuary, could it even then be the sanctuary of Dan. viii, 13. 14? 23. Is the land of Canaan the sanctuary? 24. Out of the 146 times of the word's occurrence, how many texts, have been urged as referring to the land of Canaan? 25. In view of this what have men strangely claimed? 26. What is the first text supposed to apply to Canaan? 27. What testimony does David utter, which should be taken in connection with this? 28. From what is the first of these texts taken? 29. When was the second text written? 30. How does the psalmist, then, record what Moses utters as a prediction? 31. Of what does the psalm thus become an inspired commentary? 32. Taking the first text without the other, what idea might be gathered? 33. But if the second text be taken in connection with the first, what does it do? 35. What distinction does Jehoshaphat point out between the land of Canaan and the sanctuary in 2 Chron. xx, 7-9? p. 47, top. 36. What is another text by which some persons attempt to prove that Canaan is the sanctuary? 37. This is only an inference; and what facts make the matter all plain? 38. What may occur to some minds as a fourth text to prove that Canaan is the sanctuary? 39. Is it fully admitted that Canaan was the place of God's sanctuary? 40. What fact should be noticed by those who say that the place of the sanctuary is the sanctuary itself? 41. What would this prove? 42. What is the sum of the argument, thus far, respecting the earth, the church, and the land of Canaan? 43. What does the sanctuary as brought to view in the Bible include? 44. What did the tabernacle erected by Moses include? 45. Where do we find our first instructions respecting the sanctuary? 46. What do we learn in chap. xxiv? 47. With what does the next chapter commence? 48. For what express purpose do we here learn that the sanctuary was erected? 50. According to what was Moses enjoined to make the sanctuary and all its vessels? 51. What was the plan of the sanctuary? 52. How many coverings had it? 53. What formed the door at the east end of the tabernacle? 54. What divided the tabernacle into the holy and the most holy place? 55. What was the ark and what were its dimensions? 56. For what purpose was it made? 57. What was the mercy seat? 58. What had it on either end? 59. What was the size of the altar of incense, and for what purpose was it used? 60. For what was the golden censer used? 61. Of what was the candlestick made, and what was its use? 62. Give the size of the table of shew-bread, and its use? 63. Give the dimensions of the altar of burnt-offering, and the use that was made of it? 65. What was the size of the court that surrounded the tabernacle? 66. How much was a cubit?