Exodus 25

This divine worship God is very jealous of; this is the apple of his eye, this is the pearl of his crown which he guards as he did the tree of life, with cherubim and a flaming sword, that no man may come near to violate it: divine worship must be such as God himself has appoint…

Answ. 1, Read the Bible with reverence; think every line you read God is speaking to you. The ark wherein the law was put was overlaid with pure gold, and was carried on bars that the Levites might not touch it (Exodus 25:14). And why was this?

1. The Introduction to the Lord's Prayer, sic orate vos, After this manner pray you.] Our Lord Jesus in these words prescribed to his disciples and us a directory for prayer. The Ten Commandments are the rule of our life, the Creed is the sum of our faith, and the Lord's Prayer…

What duties we are to do, what sins we are to avoid. God gave Moses a pattern how he would have the tabernacle made, and he was to go exactly according to the pattern (Exodus 25:9). The word is the pattern God has given us in writing for modeling our lives; therefore how careful…

If obedience has not the Word for its rule, it is not doing God's will but our own, it is [in non-Latin alphabet], will-worship (Deuteronomy 12:32). The Lord would have Moses make the Tabernacle, [in non-Latin alphabet], according to the pattern (Exodus 25:40). If Moses had left…

Question 2. By what means do we come to know that God will thus be worshipped? That God is to be worshipped, and that according to his own will and appointment, is a principal branch of the law of our creation, written in our hearts (Romans 1:21; Romans 2:14-15; Acts 15:16-17; A…

Christ by his death has freed me from the whole Ceremonial Law, so that if I consent to rear again what Christ by his death has abolished, I crucify Christ, make myself guilty of his blood, and as much as in me lies, expel him out of the Nation. Now, the Ceremonial Law has his c…

This was the nature, use and end of the Tabernacle of old. God dwelt therein in the signs and pledges of his presence, and was on the account thereof the God of that people, according to the terms of the Covenant between them (Exodus 25:8; Revelation 21:3). That therefore wherei…

We must first consider the reading of these words by reason of the testimony which the Apostle quotes out of the Law, and his rendring thereof. The words in the original (Exodus 25:40) are [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] And look (or take heed) and make after their pattern which was s…

This with the Mercy-Seat wherewith it was covered, was the most glorious and mysterious utensil of the Tabernacle and afterwards of the Temple; the most eminent pledge of the divine presence, the most mysterious representation of the holy properties of his Nature in Christ. This…

(3.) Their use; they Shadowed the Mercy-Seat. The making, form, fashion and use of these Cherubims is declared (Exodus 25). The signification of the name, and their original shape or form, any farther then that they were alata animata, winged creatures, are not certainly known.

Some of them contend that the Apostle has respect to the Temple of Solomon wherein were ten Candlesticks, five on the one side and five on the other (1 Kings 7:49), which is directly contrary to his scope and the words of the text. Some suppose that the one Candlestick which was…

But Christ the substance being come, and all the types and shadows therefore done away, there are not, there cannot be typical places, or typical holiness in places in these times. 3. Those places of old were holy by virtue of God's institution, who did appoint and sanctify them…

For we are often charged neither to add nor diminish from God's appointments: whatever thing I command you, observe and do it, you shall neither add thereto nor diminish from it (Deuteronomy 12, last). And in many other places, the Lord gave it strictly in charge to Moses (Exodu…

They add further the testimony of Aben-Ezra, whose greater antiquity and authority they invoke. He, however, in his commentary on Exodus 25:31 has these words: I saw in the books that the sages of Tiberias examined, concerning which certain of their elders swore that they had ca…

Moreover, the Hebrew word sometimes signifies "to give," or at least "to receive with the mind and purpose of giving": Hosea 14:2, "Receive good" — that is, "Give us grace" — or, as our own translators render the sense, "Receive us graciously" — that is, "Be You the bestower of…

Angels have eyes within and without (Revelation 4:6), to behold the beauty of the Lord, and it takes up their eyes always to behold his face; and there is no beauty of truth they desire more to behold — [in non-Latin alphabet] (1 Peter 1:12) — as to stoop down, and to look into…

But I had rather take it here for covenant, or agreement. For the Lord speaking of the Tabernacle of the covenant in Exodus, says, 'I will there make appointment with you' (Exodus 25:21, 22, 29, 42). We must not think then that he speaks here of an assembly of men, as when the p…

For however obscurely and at a distance Moses may exhibit Christ in shadows, rather than in a full portrait, (Hebrews 10:1,) this, at least, is beyond dispute, that unless there be in the family of Abraham one exalted Head, under whom the people may be united in one body, the co…

The Holy Ghost himself, has been pleased to put that Matter out of Doubt, by representing his Church by such a golden Candlestick, with seven Lamps, in the fourth Chapter of Zechariah, and representing the seven Churches of Asia by seven golden Candlesticks, in the first Chapter…

§ 7 The second Family, of the first general Head of Affirmative precepts, contain those which concern the Sanctuary and Priesthood, being nineteen in number. 1. That a Sanctuary, Tabernacle, or Temple should be built (Exodus 25:8). 2. That being built, it should be reverenced (L…

But their names are far distant in the original both in sound and signification, this was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Aaron, a chest, it may be from [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], a certain wood whereof such chests were made; that was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Tebah, the name of any…

2. To be kept as things of price; as jewels and treasures are hidden in chests and secret places, that they may not be embezzled or purloined. And herein there may be an allusion to the law, which was kept in a chest or ark (Exodus 25:21). Thus the word is hidden, not in order t…

Now because the word of God branches itself into two parts, the Law and the Gospel, this notion may be applied to both. First, To the Law, in regard of which the Ark is called the Ark of the Testimony (Exodus 25:16), because the two Tables were laid up in it. The Gospel is also…

When God gave the law, the mount was on fire and trembled (Exodus 19:18), that the people might prostrate themselves more reverently before the Lord. The ark wherein the law was put was carried upon poles so that the Levites might not touch it (Exodus 25:11-14), to show what rev…

When a believer can call nothing his own, he can say all is his. The tabernacle was covered with rough skins on the outside (Exodus 25), yet most of it was gold within. So a saint may have a poor covering, ragged clothes, but he is inlaid with gold — Christ is formed in his hear…

He is the Candlestick of this House. The making, fashioning, and use of the Candlestick, in the holy place of the Tabernacle, you have (Exodus 25:31 &c.). It was one of the most glorious utensils of that frame: made of pure and beaten Gold, with much variety of works, knops, flo…

Thirdly, the declaration of the mind of the Lord in these two examples, was no Answer by Vrim; for besides that there is no mention in the text of the high Priest being spoken to put on the Ephod to enquire by Vrim, neither doe any Interpreters, understand it so, both the texts…

The covenant is founded upon Christ, and is sealed in his blood. We read of the mercy seat, which was a divine hieroglyph, typifying Jesus Christ (Exodus 25:17). There will I meet you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, verse 22.

Beloved, the time is now of giving honor to God, and giving Glory to God, but your being where Christ is, God then gives you Glory and gives you Honour. Fourthly, your happiness in being present with Christ where hee is, is that you shalt stand in no need of Ordinances: beloved,…

Then I asked him what I must do when I came; and he told me I must entreat upon my knees (Psalms 95:6; Daniel 6:10), with all my heart and soul (Jeremiah 29:12-13), the Father to reveal him to me. Then I asked him further, how I must make my supplications to him; and he said, Go…

Does the communion of saints, which they have one with another, take away or infringe the title, or property which each man has in his own goods, and possessions? No. (Acts 5:4; Exodus 25:14; Ephesians 5:28.) Well then, do not the Anabaptists err, who affirm, that the goods and…