8/20/2023 0 Comments Chapter 8 we were here togetherThe rites and ceremonies of their cleansing were to be performed,ġ. The Levites must be cleansed, and were so. Christian musts be baptized, ministers must be ordained we must first give ourselves unto the Lord, and then our services. Note, All that are employed for God must be dedicated to him, according as the degree of employment is. All Israel must know that they took not this honour to themselves, but were called of God to it nor was it enough that they were distinguished from their neighbours, but they must be solemnly devoted to God. Now here we have directions given for their solemn ordination ( v. 3:6, 15), that they might be employed in the service of the tabernacle. We read before of the separating of the Levites from among the children of Israel when they were numbered, and the numbering of them by themselves ( ch. Therefore we have light, that we may give light. Note, The lights of the world, the lights of the church, must shine as lights. They were not lighted like tapers in an urn, to burn to themselves, but to give light to the other side of the tabernacle, for therefore candles are lighted, Mt. To what end the lamps were lighted, that they might give light over against the candlestick, that is, to that part of the tabernacle where the table stood, with the show-bread upon it, over against the candlestick. He also supposes that, seven being a number of perfection, by the seven branches of the candlestick is shown the full perfection of the scriptures, which are able to make us wise to salvation.Ģ. 4:5), but that in the expounding of scripture one passage must borrow light from another. Ainsworth) signifies that the fountain of all light and knowledge is in Christ, who has the seven spirits of God figured by the seven lamps of fire ( Rev. The priest lighted the middle lamp from the fire of the altar, and the rest of the lamps he lighted one from another, which (says Mr. Now the work of ministers is to light these lamps, by expounding and applying the word of God. And a dark place indeed even the church would be without it, as the tabernacle (which had no window in it) without the lamps. The scripture is a light shining in a dark place, 2 Pt. 18:28), Thou wilt light my candle and thus Aaron himself was now lately directed to bless the people, The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, ch. As the people's representative to God, he thus did the office of a servant in God's house, lighting his Master's candle as the representative of God to the people, he thus gave them the intimations of God's will and favour, thus expressed ( Ps. Who must light the lamps Aaron himself, he lighted the lamps, v. But now it was that the lamps were first ordered to be lighted, when other things began to be used. 25:31), and it was made according to the pattern shown to Moses in the mount, Ex. 23, etc.).ĭirections were given long before this for the making of the golden candlestick ( Ex. And, lastly, the age appointed for their ministration ( v. How all these orders were duly executed ( v. How they were consigned to Aaron and his sons, to be ministers to them ( v. How they were presented to God in lieu of the firstborn ( v. How they were parted with by the people ( v. Here we have an account of the ordination of the Levites, the inferior clergy.Ģ. The ordination of the priests we had an account of, Lev. The living lamps (if I may so call them), The Levites, who as ministers were burning and shining lights. The burning lamps in the candlestick, which the priests were charged to tend ( v. This chapter is concerning the lamps or lights of the sanctuary.
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