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

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

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