CONTENTS In the prosecution of the same important subject, the Lord gives Moses direction in this Chapter for the priests. Having prepared the hallowed spot for his worship, he here appoints the servants who are to minister in it before him. Aaron's dress, as the high-priest, is particularly descri... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. Are not these garments emblematical of the glory and beauty of the Lord Jesus? Zechariah 9:16; Hebrews 7:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 28:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Were not these robes worn by the priests to remind the people of the robe of Jesus' s righteousness, and his garments of salvation? Isaiah 61:10; Psalms 132:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the priests putting off their own clothes and putting on these robes of splendor, was it not meant to show how the Lord Jesus laid aside his glory, when he clothed himself in our nature; and when he who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him? 2 Corint... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this beautifully explained to us in a spiritual sense, where the church begs to be set upon the Redeemer's heart and arm? Song of Solomon 8:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who will not see the government of the Lord Jesus strikingly represented in this verse? Isaiah 9:6. Was not this unfolded to the beloved apostle, when he saw the Lord Jesus going in before the mercy-seat? Revelation 5:6; Revelation 5:6. See also Ephesians 5:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
Was not the fastening here of the garments meant to show, that all the offices of the Lord Jesus are united? He that was the high priest was also the lamb in the midst of the throne, testifying both his priestly and his kingly office; and also him alone that was found worthy to open the book, and lo... [ Continue Reading ]
God's people are called his jewels. Malachi 3:17. And agreeably to this, the new Jerusalem is thus described, Revelation 21:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sweet thought! every name was to be engraven on the high priest's breast-plate. So on the heart of Jesus, every name of his people, however low or insignificant among men, is held in everlasting remembrance before God. Reader! do you hope that your name is on the heart of Jesus? And shall not Jesus... [ Continue Reading ]
What is said of the ephod of the high priest with the curious girdle, proves that this ornament differed from the common ephod which had no girdle. Thus Samuel when a child had an ephod, 1 Samuel 2:18. And David when he danced before the ark, 2 Samuel 6:14. But this of the high priest had a girdle.... [ Continue Reading ]
Concerning this Urim an d Thummim, which mean lights and perfections, no one alive can give any certain account. All that is said of them in scriptures leads to this conclusion, that when the high priest wore them, it was by way of testifying, that the people through him waited for the Lord's direct... [ Continue Reading ]
Was not the care recommended that this robe should not be rent, designed to show the seamless garment of Jesus, as that was the perfect nature of his righteousness? John 19:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably those bells were intended to inform the people by their sound, that the high priest when rising up by which they rung was then going to offer incense; so that they which were in the outward court might join in prayer. See Luke 1:9. Some have thought, that that expression in the Psalms hath... [ Continue Reading ]
This glorious inscription of "holiness to Jehovah, " could mean no other, than that the Lord Jesus was hereby represented. For Aaron, considered in himself, had no holiness. He was sprung from that stock of whom it is said, Romans 3:12. But beheld as personating him, how precious is the sight. Hebre... [ Continue Reading ]
How striking the expression, to bear the iniquity of the holy things! See Leviticus 10:17. then Isaiah 53:5 then turn to the gospel, Galatians 3:13; Romans 3:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
Was not this fine linen emblematical of the righteousness of Christ upon his saints? See Revelation 19:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
No ministration was to be performed even by the inferior priests of the four sons of Aaron, without being clad in their vestments. Was not this intended to show, that in all the approaches of the Lord's people before God, they must be clothed in the robes of Jesus' s righteousness? In ourselves we a... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this covering to conceal the nakedness of the priests, an emblem of the sinners want, whose soul is in himself polluted and naked before God. Oh! for the complete covering of the righteousness of the Lord Jesus! Reader! may that blessedness be your portion and mine, which is pronounced by the... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Look up, my soul, and see that great high priest of thy profession, that Almighty Aaron of the New Testament dispensation, the Lord Jesus Christ, going in, clothed in his holy garments of everlasting glory and of eternal beauty, before God and the Father; and still wearing on his preciou... [ Continue Reading ]