Exodus 38 - Introduction
_THE ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERING, THE LAVER OF BRASS, AND THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE, ARE MADE: THE SUM OF THE OFFERINGS FOR THE TABERNACLE ARE SPECIFIED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERING, THE LAVER OF BRASS, AND THE COURT OF THE TABERNACLE, ARE MADE: THE SUM OF THE OFFERINGS FOR THE TABERNACLE ARE SPECIFIED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_EXODUS 38:1_. The brazen altar for the sacrifices, and the laver for the priests, are next fashioned: both typical of him, who made the one atonement for sin, and whose blood alone can cleanse our souls from the guilt or the defilement of it. This laver was made of the looking-glasses of the devout... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE LOOKING-GLASS OF THE WOMEN ASSEMBLING— _Looking-glasses_ or _mirrors_ were anciently, as appears from hence, made of brass. Callimachus, in his hymn to Pallas, observes, (Exodus 38:19 that she never looked into ορεικαλκον, a _mirror made of mountain-brass,_ nor into water; which were heretofo... [ Continue Reading ]
_EXODUS 38:14_. The learned reader will find some critical emendations of this and the following verse, proposed by Houbigant in his Comment.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE HEIGHT IN THE BREADTH WAS FIVE CUBITS— The Hebrew is, _and its height in the breadth:_ an expression, which specifies only the height of the hanging. REFLECTIONS.—Behold a figure of the church of God: a little inclosure, with Christ in the midst of it, and his worshippers around him, separa... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE SUM OF THE TABERNACLE, &C.— Houbigant renders this verse, _Now this is the sum of the things which were brought for the tabernacle of the testimony, and which, by the command of Moses, were counted by the Levites; Ithamar, the son of Aaron, being their head._ The latter clause might be r... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE GOLD—WAS TWENTY AND NINE TALENTS, AND SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY SHEKELS— Allowing 5250£. to a _talent of gold,_ and thirty-five shillings to a _shekel of gold,_ this sum will be found to amount to upwards of 150,000£. English. See Cumberland's Scripture-weights, ch. 4. See also note on ch. Ex... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SILVER—AN HUNDRED TALENTS, &C.— It appears from the following verse, that 603,550 men were numbered; and, as so numbered, paid _each man half a shekel,_ which makes 301,775 shekels; i.e. (3000 _shekels_ making a talent,) 100 talents and 1775 shekels; which, at the rate of 350£. to a talent o... [ Continue Reading ]