"You shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar. The altar shall be most holy.

" Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

"You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them must be holy.

"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?