The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 25:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

A sanctuary well expresses the Hebrew micdash, which is derived from cadash—"to be holy." It is a name never given to the temples of the heathen deities. That I may dwell among them. Compare Exodus 29:45; Numbers 35:34.

There is a sense in which "God dwelleth not in temples made with hands"(Acts 7:48; Acts 17:24)—i.e; he is not comprehended in them, or confined to them; but there is another sense in which he may be truly said to dwell in them, viz; as manifesting himself in them either to the senses, or to the spirit.

In the tabernacle he manifested himself sensibly (Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35, Exodus 40:38).

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