To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.