The Temple: Its Ministry and
Services
Alfred Edersheim
Chapter 3
Temple Order, Revenues, and Music
Second Temple Inferior in
Glory --Comparison of the first and second Temple--What was wanting in the
latter--'Without the Gate'
Lines of Sanctity
Different degrees of sanctity attaching to different localities
Rules of the Rabbis
--Ordinances enforcing due reverence in the Temple--'Provide neither gold,' 'nor scrip,'
'neither shoes, nor yet staves'
Wilful Profanity
--Punishment of high-handed profanity--'Death by the hand of God' and 'cutting
off'--'Anathema Maranatha'--The punishment of 'the rebels' bearing'
Its Penalties
--The 'forty stripes save one,' and how administered
Necessity for
Discipline --Need of strict discipline from the size of the Temple and the number of
worshippers
The Temple
Treasury --The revenues of the Temple--Things dedicated and free gifts
The Tribute Money
--The Temple-tribute--How collected--Discount allowed to be charged by 'the
money-changers'
How the Money was
Spent --How the Temple revenues were employed--Splendour of the Temple services
The Temple Hymnody
--The hymnody of the Temple--References to it in the Book of Revelation--Singing in the
Temple--Threefold blast of the priests' trumpets