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The Historiacal Degrees;
THE HISTORI C
OR , TKCE SUBLIME AND INEFEABIiE DEGREES OP THE ANCIENT AN 3 > ACCEPTED R ^ [(^ n ^ Merf yrowi p . 0- ]
EacjMf which Is the thirtie ^ inordal w being fou ^ adoption of the Ah we helieve r a p mentions the Kadosh a ^ in which ^
Th 0 word fe ^ derable difficulty with all comriientat 6 rs----its first appearance in the volume of the Sacred Law is , where we read , that " God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it , " ( Gen , ii . 3 ) . He separated and distinguished ifc from the days of the week , setting it apart for the purposes of a sabbath , agreeably to the primary meaning of the word which is here made VLmofytBlpkodash , signifying " separated" or consecrated . " In the law , as delivered by Moses , we find the following precept concerning the feasts and sacred assemblages : — " Six days work shall be done * but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest , a holy convocation ; l 2 ? ip "" NHpD mikra-kodesh . ( Lev . xxiii . 3 . ) Mr . Taylor says , the
vror & kadesh , as he writes it , * signifies " holy" or " holiness , " and is equivalent to the Greeklcpoc , " sacred . " The name is also applied to certain places , where , probably , there had been a Divine appearance , as Meribah in Kadesh ( Numbers , xxvii . 14 . ) , and Meriboh Kadesh ( Deut . xxii . 51 . ) ; and in Ezekiel , xlvii . 19 , it is used in the ' plural , Meriboth Kadesh . In its application to this degree ^ we must consider it to be derived from the appointments of the priestly office . Exodus , xxviii . 36-38 : " And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold , and grave upon it , like the engravings of a signet , Holiness to the Lord . And thou shalt put it on a bine lace , that it may be upon the mitre ; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be . And it shall bo
* The word is differently rendered by translators VOTi V . h
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Historiacal Degrees;
THE HISTORI C
OR , TKCE SUBLIME AND INEFEABIiE DEGREES OP THE ANCIENT AN 3 > ACCEPTED R ^ [(^ n ^ Merf yrowi p . 0- ]
EacjMf which Is the thirtie ^ inordal w being fou ^ adoption of the Ah we helieve r a p mentions the Kadosh a ^ in which ^
Th 0 word fe ^ derable difficulty with all comriientat 6 rs----its first appearance in the volume of the Sacred Law is , where we read , that " God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it , " ( Gen , ii . 3 ) . He separated and distinguished ifc from the days of the week , setting it apart for the purposes of a sabbath , agreeably to the primary meaning of the word which is here made VLmofytBlpkodash , signifying " separated" or consecrated . " In the law , as delivered by Moses , we find the following precept concerning the feasts and sacred assemblages : — " Six days work shall be done * but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest , a holy convocation ; l 2 ? ip "" NHpD mikra-kodesh . ( Lev . xxiii . 3 . ) Mr . Taylor says , the
vror & kadesh , as he writes it , * signifies " holy" or " holiness , " and is equivalent to the Greeklcpoc , " sacred . " The name is also applied to certain places , where , probably , there had been a Divine appearance , as Meribah in Kadesh ( Numbers , xxvii . 14 . ) , and Meriboh Kadesh ( Deut . xxii . 51 . ) ; and in Ezekiel , xlvii . 19 , it is used in the ' plural , Meriboth Kadesh . In its application to this degree ^ we must consider it to be derived from the appointments of the priestly office . Exodus , xxviii . 36-38 : " And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold , and grave upon it , like the engravings of a signet , Holiness to the Lord . And thou shalt put it on a bine lace , that it may be upon the mitre ; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be . And it shall bo
* The word is differently rendered by translators VOTi V . h