THE GLORIOUS CONSUMMATION 531
Then the world shall witness for the first time the glorious
- pectacle of a whole nation, and every individual member
it, wholly consecrated to Jehovah, and an earthly capital which shall truly answer to its name, " The Holy City," Because it shall in many ways be the earthly counterpart and reflection of the glory of the New Jerusalem, which will come down out of heaven from God.
And not only shall nin!> Knp> Qodesh la-Yehovah Holiness (or holy ) unto the Lord " be written on their persons, and on all the outward and inward life of the whole community, but on everything they possess. " In tJiat day shall there be (engraven} on the bells of the horses, Holy unto Jehovah : and the pots in Jehovah s House " which were used for the boiling of the sacrificial flesh, of which the common people, as well as the priests, could eat, and were therefore regarded as less holy " shall be like the bowls before the altar" in which the blood of the sacrifices was received, and out of which it was sprinkled, or poured, upon the altar, and therefore regarded as most holy. In the words of a deep student of Scripture, " The whole external character of life that which is exhibited in the streets of a city (represented by the tinkling sound of the bells of the passing horses) shall bear in all its parts, throughout all its detail, the impress of holiness unto the Lord. Religious life and fellowship shall be holy also ; for the pots in the Lord s House, vessels which of old the priests had so often defiled, shall be like the bowls of the altar. Private and domestic life shall be hallowed too ; for every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah (that is, througJiout the holy land) shall be holy unto Jehovah of Hosts : and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe (or boil) in them. For everything alike shall be holy, and all such distinctions as profane, holy, and most holy, shall completely cease in that day. "
" The distinction between holy and profane can only cease, however," to quote yet another writer, " when the sin and moral defilement njhich first evoked this distinction, and made it necessary that the things intended for the service
