Exodus 25

Exodus 25:1

AND blue] Wooll dyed in these colours Fine linnen] Hebrew Bysse; that is, a kind of white and shining linnen, whereof great mens garments, and the Priests garments were made. See Genesis 41:4 Rev. 19. 8. 14.

Exodus 25:5

Shittim wood] A kind of wood which would not corrupt. Isaiah 41:19. which hath leaves like the white Thistle, but groweth as high and as thicke as a Cedar.

Exodus 25:6

Sweet Incense] The Italian hath it for the perfume of spices] This is added for to distinguish this perfume from the fat sacrifices.

Exodus 25:8

: Amongst them] Not by inclusion of the essence, Acts 7. 48. and 17. 24. But by an expresse and firme revelation of glory: and by the working of grace and power, through sacraments and pledges of visible signes.

Exodus 25:11

With pure gold] That is to say, with little plates of gold A Crowne] It seemeth to be some Cornice, which should goe round the body of the Arke above.

Exodus 25:16

The Testimony] The two Tables of the law: see the occasion of this name, Exodus 16:34.

Exodus 25:17

A mercy seat] The Italian hath it, a cover] The Hebrew word signifieth also a propitiatory, or mercy seat: and so the Apostle calls it, Hebrews 9:5. That is to say, a means of purging, and expiating of sinne: Because that this cover signified Christ, who with his justice covereth all our sinnes, and containeth within himselfe all the Churches justice, as the Tables of the Law were inclosed under the cover, and interposeth himselfe as Mediator, between the Law which accuseth us, and God our judge; as the cover was between the said Tables, and the Majesty of God, which resided upon the Cherubins.

Exodus 25:18

Cherubins] Human figures, winged; representing those Angels which stand before God in his Celestiall glory: as the Sanctuary signified heaven, and the Arke Gods throne in it. See upon Genesis 3:24.

Exodus 25:19

Of the mercy seat] Italian, Of the cover] Sothered together with the cover, as if they were all of one piece.

Exodus 25:22

Between the two] Which with their wings stretched forth, made as it were a kind of a seat, upon which God appeared, and spake. 1 Samuel 4:4. Psalme 80. 2. and 99. 1. Whereupon the Arke is also called the foot-stoole of Gods feet. 1 Cron. 28. 2. Psal. 99. 5. and 132. 7.

Exodus 25:23

A table] These three ornaments, namely the Table, the Candle-stick, and the Altar of Incence, shewed how that in the Church there were alwayes these three benefits; namely a distribution of spirituall goods by the nourishing of a new life in the soule of the faithfull, John 6:27. A perpetuall light of the word and doctrine; and a continuall service of good works, and prayers offered unto God, in Christs name, and sanctified through his intercession. Or otherwise, the gift of life by Gods spirit; the light through his word, and the expiation through Christs intercession.

Exodus 25:24

With pure gold] With little plates of Gold; A Crowne] An out-jetting, which did rise from the edges of the Table, in manner of a Cornice.

Exodus 25:25

A border] This was the girt that went about the foure feet below.

Exodus 25:27

Over against] So farre distant from the top of the table, as the border was from the lowermost part of the feet.

Exodus 25:29

To cover withall] The Italian hath it, For the pouring out] that is to say for the offering of liquid things, as wine, oyle, and the like: See Genesis 35:14.

Exodus 25:30

Shew-bread] So called, because it was to stand continually before the Ark of the Lord, which was as it were his face.

Exodus 25:31

Of the same] The Italian hath it, Of one peece] Seeing the Candlestick was to be of beaten worke, it could not really be of one piece, as if it had beene cast: but the meaning is, that all the parts and pieces of it were sothered together that they could not be disordered nor dis-joynted.

Exodus 25:32

Six branches] to beare the six Lamps, and in the middle of those six was the chiefe stemme, which also had one Lamp upon it, verse 37. a type of the diversity of the gifts of the holy Ghost in the Church: as Zechariah 4:2. Revelation 1:4.

Exodus 25:33

Like unto] Poynted at the bottome, and bread bellyd at the top.

Exodus 25:34

Foure boules] the first was upon the foot upon the first forking, and the second upon the last.

Exodus 25:35

Vnder two] The meaning of this seemeth to be that the Candlestick in those places should bee made in this manner, that under a boule, there should be a flower, and upon the flower the knop: which being just under the forking, or parting of two branches, made as it were the basis thereof.

Exodus 25:37

Shal light] This was the Priests office, and these Lamps were to be sighted between two evens: Exodus 30:8. 2 Chronicles 13:11. and were to stand so lighted all the night, Exodus 27:21. Leviticus 24:3. then be put out in the morning. 1 Samuel 3:3 Give light] the Nosels and Cotten Wykes being turned towards the North, and the Candlestick was to stand in the fouth part of the tabernacle. Exodus 26:35. Numbers 8:2.

Exodus 25:38

Snffedishes Little vessells to gather out any foulnesse that was in the Lampe.

Exodus 25:39

A Talent] Which as we may gather by Exodus chap: 38: verse 25. was three thousand Shekels, and one hundred and five and twenty pounds of 1. ounces a peece.

Exodus 25:40

After their] As God did also afterwards give one in writing for the building of the temple. 1. Chr. 28. 19. Now the Apostle Heb: 8: 5. referreth this model also to the meaning of what it signifieth, it perfectly agreeing with the first patterne oheavenly things, either the mysteries of these correspondencies being revealed to Moses or the Apostle, speaking onely by allusion.