Exodus 40

But it is certain, that the law was given on Mount Sinai before the institution of that Priesthood. For Aaron was not called nor separated to his office, until after Moses came down from the Mount the second time, with the tables renewed after he had broken them (Exodus 40:12, 1…

For at the Time of the Dedication of the first Covenant, the Tabernacle was not yet made or erected, and so could not then be sprinkled with Blood. And afterwards when the Tabernacle was erected, and all the Vessels brought into it, there is no mention that either it or any of t…

That which principally gave to it, its order, beauty, glory, and use, was that it was entirely, and in all the parts and appurtenances of it, made according to the pattern which God showed Moses in the Mount. And therefore when it was finished and erected, all the parts belongin…

Therefore he shows that as the covenant itself was dedicated with blood, which proves the necessity of the blood of Christ to the confirmation of the New Covenant; so all the ways and means of solemn worship were purged and purified by the same means which demonstrates its effic…

And it was the same in them both, as is evident (1 Kings 8:4, 6). It was the repository of the Covenant; for so the Law written by the finger of God in Tables of stone, is often called metonymically, and being anointed (Exodus 40:9), became [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], holiness of…

Christ typified by the Paschal Lamb. Exodus 40:9. [in non-Latin alphabet] who: Daniel 9:25.

Dwelling, notes the continuance and consistency of darkness, he does not say, let a cloud pass over it, (for clouds properly are unfixed, clouds move continually, and are carried on the wings of the wind;) but Job would have his cloud a fixed cloud, a cloud so black and so stron…

The pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them; and it came between the Camp of the Egyptians, and the Camp of Israel, and it was a cloud of darkness to them, and it gave light by night to these. After this when the Ark was made, and the Tabernacle er…

"For I will appear in the tabernacle upon the mercy-seat." We read elsewhere of the cloud of glory descending into the tabernacle, Exodus 40:35; and so we do likewise with respect to Solomon's temple. But we have no account that this cloud of glory was in the second temple.

Possible out of eager opposition to enthusiasts and Libertines we run on another extreme, that we rush on duties upon no other account, but only the Scripture is clear, Do this in remembrance of me; and that warranted us to eat at the Lord's Supper prepared or not prepared, but…

But yet this seems not to satisfy. 1. Circumcision, and the ceremonies; and the priesthood (Exodus 40:15), (Leviticus 16:29) the fast in the seventh month, shall be a statute, for ever. (Leviticus 6:18) All the [reconstructed: males] of the sons of Aaron shall eat the remainder…

So that upon the Glory shall be a defence, is as much as to say, the mercy-seat shall be on the Ark, or you shall have the mercy represented and intimated thereby. 2. The Tabernacle and cloud, or pillar of fire, are also called to mind; so the words are expressive, of that figur…

Under the Old Testament we find, that all that God required of his Church, was, that they should observe the Law of Moses his Servant, which he commanded to him in Horeb, for all Israel, with his Statutes and Judgements (Malachi 4:4). And when God had given out his Institutions,…