2 Chronicles 3

As to their place and posture, they were over the Ark. For these Cherubims had feet whereon they stood (2 Chronicles 3:13). And these feet were joyned in one continued beaten work to the ends of the Mercy-Seat which was upon the Ark; therefore they were wholly over it, or above…

“Cependant que le service, qui avoit les ombres de la Loy, a duré;” — “so long as the service, which contained the shadows of the Law, lasted.” a veil was hung up before the earthly sanctuary, in order to keep the people not only from entering but from seeing it, (Exodus 26:33;…

In that of the Temple of Solomon, which was more august and spacious, there was by God's direction two other Cherubims added. These were great, and large, made of the wood of the Olive tree, over-laid with Gold, and they stood on their feet behind the Ark Westward, with their ba…

4. It may be said to be of the wood of Lebanon, that is excellent and durable, for so the wood of Lebanon was, for which cause it was made use of in building of the Temple; and so all the materials of this Covenant, and its properties are excellent and durable, it's an everlasti…

Next it is said to be like Carmel; which may be understood, 1. as it relates to a fruitful place, mentioned with Sharon (Isaiah 35:2), the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. 2. It may be translated Scarlet or Crimson, as the same word is (2 Chronicles 3:14); thus it is a rich colo…

But that beautiful, glorious, costly structure of the temple, that succeeded the tabernacle, and was a fixed, and not a moveable thing, seems especially to represent the church in its glorified state in heaven. This temple was built according to the pattern shown by the Holy Gho…

But you take another course; having misreported my words to gain some countenance thereby to what you had to except against them, you add, Surely the Prophet wanted a word then to express himself, or translators to express the Prophet: If we must guess at his meaning without hee…