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

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

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

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.

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.