A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual.

The dogs flushed out some doves.

Such a reading would not in any case explain its author's use of the frequentative tense of the verbs, which indicates that he did not understand Josiah's action described in v. 8aα as such a one-off measure, but rather, we must presume, as making provision for these now altarless priests to exercise their priestly office at the altar in Jerusalem, should any of them wish to do so.

So it will be seen again, as always, that if he now works with stone in this sense, using the new power which the machine has given him over it, he will gain a spiritual integrity and physical health to compensate him for the losses of the storyful beauties of that period, […]