consumption of their bodies? The very act of numbering the animals mentioned here as given by King Solomon at this consecration, at the rate of one-hundred and twenty each minute would occupy full nineteen hours and three quarters! How then, we again enquire, could they all be butchered and consumed in a single day? What kind of conceptions we would also ask, must those persons have who entertain the vulgar notions in relation to sacrifices, respecting the Great Jevohah, who seem seriously to believe that he was delighted with the butchering of sheep and oxen; and fancy that the stench of burnt flesh was a sweet smelling savour in his nostrils? Who can conceive that the beautiful structure raised by Solomon, and consecrated to the worship of Jehovah could not be deemed an appropriate place for the manifestation of the Divine Purity, until it became filled with the fumes of burning victims and defiled with the filth, and blood and garbage which must obviously be the concomitants of such butchery?Would such a scene as the Temple must have presented, if living sacrifices were really made, be calculated to inspire a congregation with devotional feelings? Would it not rather produce abhorrence and disgust? But we cease. It could not be so. The sacrifices of the Jews were no doubt widely different from that view which has been palmed on the world through the darkness of human tradition. We have in this address only time to say, that in the Scriptures the names of animals are applied to vessels made of their respective skins; to monies, stamped with their appropriate figures; to pastry images of them, made of fine flour and other ingredients as specified in the Livitical law; to human beings, and to individual spirits or societies, seen above by Prophets, Apostles, and other Holy men of old, enveloped in bestial spheres. We merely add, that the sheep and the oxen, offered by Solomon at this consecration were doubtless pieces of money of
