Excerpt from The Jewish Tabernacle: And Its Furniture, in Their Typical Teachings When St. Paul desired to point out tho relation existing between the Mosaic economy, with its rites and ceremonies, and that which has succeeded it, he compared the former to a shadow and the latter to a body, or sicbstance, by which that shadow was forecast. Colossi ans ii.17. The relation existing between a shadow and the substance which projects it is easily understood. But all natural figures fail when applied to spiritual things. Ordinarily the shadow will afford nothing but the most general and unsatisfactory idea of the nature of the substance which projects it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.