Temples, ancient and modern : or, Notes on church architecture (1837)
Bardwell, Wm. (William) · London : Printed for the author · leaf 78
TEMPLES, 52 interposition, or as testimonials of admiration, of hope, or of fear ; and by appropriate forms and appropriate sculpture to awaken in the minds of the people, and to impress upon them the peculiar tenets or doctrines, such forms were made to represent. These have been symbols sometimes… … Temple at Ablry. sometimes not, merely arbitrary or conventional, according to circumstances. An altar of turf or of stones, stones of memo- rial, such as that set up at the grave of Jacob's belovedRACHEL, the great stone near the oak at Shechem, Ab- salom's Pillar, Jacob's Bethel, ^ Samuel's Ebe-…
Church architecture · Temples
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