immediately following verse, the sanctification of the tabernacle, and of the altar, is expressly mentioned. Besides it is plain that the external symbol of Jehovah’s presence was a sufficient indication of God’s glory in the tabernacle. Thus the holiness of the people, equally as that of places, was derived from the external presence of God.’*—Now, as the Divine Presence had a local, visible residence over the mercy-seat, which was the throne of Jehovah; as that Presence among the Israelites had