L'encyclopédie populaire et critique de la Bible et le dictionnaire scriptural, définissant et expliquant entièrement tous les termes religieux, y compris les thèmes biographiques, géographiques, historiques, archéologiques et doctrinaux . es,se dressent à la verticale. Qu'ils ont été utilisés comme autels presque instinctivement suggéré à chaque thatviews eux, Et cette conclusion est renforcéequand, comme c'est souvent le cas, nous observons un petit trou circulaire de la cir à travers lequel probablement la corde a wasrun par lequel les victimes, lorsqu'elles ont été abattues, wereliés à l'autel, comme elles étaient aux projections d'angulararnes ou des cornes de l'autel juif (Ps.cxviii:27

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The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . es, set upright. That they were used as altars isalmost instinctively suggested to every one thatviews them, and this conclusion is strengthenedwhen, as is often the case, we observe a small cir-cular hole through which probably the rope wasrun by which the victims, when slaughtered, werebound to the altar, as they were to the angularprojections or horns of the Jewish altar (Ps.cxviii :27). (3) Cairn Altars. It was natural that wherea sufficiency of large stones could not be found, heaps of smaller ones should be employed, andthat, when practicable, a large flat stone wouldbe placed on the top, to give a proper level forthe fire of the sacrifice. Such are the cairnaltars, of which many still remain; but as theyare sometimes found in places where stones oflarge size might have been obtained, it seemsthat in later times such altars had a special ap-propriation, and Toland (Hist. B. Druids, 101)shows that the sacred fires were burned on them, and sacrifices offered to Bel, Baal, or the Sun.. Cairn Altar. The injunction that there should be no ascentby steps to the altar appears to have been im-perfectly understood. There are no accounts orfigures of altars so elevated in their fabric as torequire such steps for the officiating priests; butwhen altars are found on rocks or hills, the as-cent to them is sometimes facilitated by stepscut in the rock. This, therefore, may have beenan indirect way of preventing that erection ofaltars in high places which the Scriptures so oftenreprobate. (4) Horns of the Altar. It is usuallysupposed, however, that the effect of thisprohibition was that the tabernacle altar, like most ancient altars, was so low as toneed no ascent, or else that some other kind ofascent was provided. The former is probablyright, for the altar was but three

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