id="chap01fn4"/>4. Exodus 25:22.

5. Exodus 40:34-38.

6. Joshua 18:1; see also 19:51; 21:2; Judges 18:31; I Samuel 1:3, 24; 4:3, 4.

7. I Chron. 21:29; II Chron. 1:3.

8. II Samuel 6:12; II Chron. 5:2.

9. II Samuel 7:2.

10. I Chron. 28:2, 3; compare II Samuel 7:1-13.

11. II Chron. 5:14; see also 7:1, 2, and compare Exodus 40:35.

12. I Kings 14:25, 26.

13. II Chron. 24:7.

14. II Kings 16:7-9, 17 and 18; see also II Chron. 28:24, 25.

15. II Chron. 36:18, 19; see also II Kings 24:13; 25:9.

16. Jeremiah 25:11, 12; 29:10.

17. Ezra, chaps. 1 and 2.

18. Ezra, chap. 6.

19. Ezra 3:12, 13.

20. Ezra 4:4-24.

21. Ezra 6:15-22.

22. Matt. 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6.

23. See Book of Mormon, II Nephi 5:16.

24. See Book of Mormon, III Nephi 11:1.

25. See the author's "The Great Apostasy," chap. IX.

26. See the author's "The Great Apostasy," chap. X.

27. See the author's "The Articles of Faith," Lecture I, and references thereto.

28. See the author's "The Articles of Faith," specifically Lecture I, and notes thereon.

29. See Doctrine and Covenants 36:8; 42:36; 133:2.

30. See Doctrine and Covenants 115:7-16.

31. See Doctrine and Covenants, Section 95.

32. See Doctrine and Covenants, Section 109.

33. See Doctrine and Covenants, 110:1-10.

CHAPTER II
SANCTUARIES IN EARLIER DISPENSATIONS

As understood and applied herein, the designation "temple" is restricted to mean an actual structure, reared by man, hallowed and sanctified for the special service of Deity, such service including the authoritative administration of ordinances pertaining to the Holy Priesthood, and not merely a place, however sacred the spot may have become. If sacred places were to be classed with sacred buildings as essentially temples, the category would include many a holy Bethel rarely considered as such. In the more extended application of the term, the Garden in Eden was the first sanctuary of earth, for therein did the Lord first speak unto man and make known the Divine law. So too, Sinai became a sanctuary, for the mount was consecrated as the special abode of the Lord while He communed with the prophet, and issued His decrees. The sanctity of such places was as that of Horeb, where God spake unto Moses from the midst of the flame; and where, as the man approached he was halted by the command: "Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."^[1] A temple, however, is characterized not alone as the