2 Chronicles 3

“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;…

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…