Was it not said in the triumphal canticle of Moses and Miriam,
that the temple-moimt was the inheritance Grod had made his
habitation, the sanctuary which his hands had prepared ?^ Was
this hand not to restore it again ? He must do so, the Jews
thought; for it was said there immediately afterwards, that
" the Lord should be king for ever and ever.''

It was therefore decreed that a priest was not to drink wine
on the day he would have been on duty at the temple, had its re-
gulations still continued in force ;3 for the miracle of the restora-
tion might take place on that very day, and according to the law
the priest ought to be fasting then. Proselytes were to deposit
a sum of money, that the legal sacrifice might be bought with it,
in case of the restoration of the temple. It was only in later
times, when weary of waiting in vain, and in some degree recon-

^ The proofs of this are to be found in the article of Friedmann and Gratz,
TheoL Jahrbiicher Ton Baur and Zeller, 1848, p. 844.
3 Exod. XT. 17. * Friedmann in Orient, 1849, p. 549.
416 TH£ LAST DATS OF JUDAISM.
