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The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:24
Thou shalt overlay it with pure gold. Again, gilding may be meant; but a covering with thin plates of gold is perhaps more probable. A crown of gold round about. A border, or edging round the top, which would prevent an…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:25
A border of a hand-breadth. Rather "a band" or "framing." This seems to have been a broad flat bar, placed about hallway down the legs, uniting them and holding them together. It was represented in the sculpture of the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:26
The four corners that are on the four feet, is scarcely an intelligible expression. Pe'oth, the word translated "corners," means properly "ends;" and the direction seems to be, that the four rings should be affixed to t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:27
Over against the border. Rather "opposite the band" or "framing"—i.e; opposite the points at which the "band" or "framing" was inserted into the legs. Bishop Patrick supposes that the table "was not carried up as high a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:29
The dishes thereof. Literally" its dishes," or rather perhaps, "its bowls" (LXX. τρύβλια). They were probably the vessels in which the loaves were brought to the table. Loaves are often seen arranged in bowls in the Eg…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:30
Thou shalt set upon the table shew-bread before me alway. Here we have at once the object of the table, and its name, explained. The table was to have set upon it continually twelve loaves, or cakes, of bread (Le Exodus…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:31-40
EXPOSITION THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK (Exodus 25:31-40). Though the holy of holies was always dark, unless when lighted by. the glory of God (Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35), the holy place, in which many of the priests' functi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:31-40
The symbolism of the candlestick. The light which illuminated the darkness of the tabernacle can represent nothing but the Holy Spirit of God, which illuminates the dark places of the earth and the recesses of the heart…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:31
A candlestick. The golden candlestick is figured upon the Arch of Titus, and appears by that representation to have consisted of an upright shaft, from which three curved branches were carried out on either side, all of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:32
Six branches. The representation on the Arch of Titus exactly agrees with this description. It was a peculiarity of the "candlestick," as compared with other candelabra, that all the branches were in the same plane.
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:33
Three bowls made like unto almonds. Cups shaped like almond blossoms seem to be intended. Each branch had three of these in succession, then a pomegranate and a lily-flower. The lily probably represented the Egyptian lo…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:34
In the candlestick: i.e; in the central shaft or stem, which is viewed as "the candlestick" par excellence. Here were to be twelve ornaments, the series of cup, pomegranate, and lily being repeated four times, once in c…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:35
A knop under two branches of the same. The branches were to quit the stem at the point of junction between the pomegranate (knop) and the lily.
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:36
All it. Rather, "all of it." Shall be one beaten work. Compare Exodus 25:31
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:37
The seven lamps. The lamps are not described. They appear by the representation on the Arch of Titus to have been hemispherical bowls on a stand, which fitted into the lily-blossom wherewith each of the seven branches t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:38
The tongs thereof. Tongs or pincers were required for trimming the wicks of the lamps. Compare 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:21. Snuff-dishes were also needed for the reception of the fragments removed from the wicks by…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:39
Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it. The candlestick, with all its appurtenances, was to weigh exactly a talent of gold. The value of the Hebrew gold talent is supposed to have been between 10,000l. and 11,000l. o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:40
Their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. Compare Exodus 25:9, and the comment ad loc. It would seem from this passage that the "patterns" were shown to Moses first, and the directions as to the making given af…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 26:1-37
The symbolism of the tabernacle structure. I. That the HOLY OF HOLIES typified heaven itself is declared in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 9:7-12). In it were the forms of cherubim, representing the angelic choir,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 26:1-37
Jehovah's dwelling. Instructions are now given for the making of the "dwelling-place," of that sacred house or tent which was to be the special abode of Jehovah, and within which, when reared according to the fashion sh…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 26:1-37
The tabernacle itself. Consider here— I. GOD'S COMMANDMENT THAT A DWELLING-PLACE SHOULD BE PROVIDED FOR HIM. Against even the least degree of image-making there was a stern edict; and we might also have expected that th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 26:1-37
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 26:1-37
THE TABERNACLE. The sacred furniture which the tabernacle was to contain having been described, with the exception of the "altar of incense" the description of which is reserved for Exodus 30:1-38. (Exodus 30:1-10)-dire…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 26:1
The fine linen covering (Exodus 26:1-6). Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains. These "ten curtains" are explained in the verses which follow to be ten "breadths," so fastened together as to form practically…