Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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Those whom God calls to any service he will either find, or make, fit for it. If God give the commission, he will in some measure give the qualifications, according as the service is. The work, that was to be done here was to make the tabernacle and the utensils of it, which are here particularly reckoned up, Ex 31:7, &c. And for this the persons employed were enabled to work in gold, and silver, and brass. When Christ sent his apostles to rear the gospel tabernacle, he poured out his Spirit upon them, to enable them to speak with tongues the wonderful works of God; not to work upon metal, but to work upon men; so much more excellent were the gifts, as the tabernacle to be pitched was a greater and more perfect tabernacle, as the apostle calls it, Heb 9:11.
8 and the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all
his furniture, and the altar of incense,
9 and the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver
and his foot,
10 and the clothes of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,
11 and t h e anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place:
according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
The Sabbath as a Sign
A strict command for the sanctification of the sabbath day, Ex 31:13-17. The law of the sabbath had been given them before any other law, by way of preparation (Ex 16:23); it had been inserted in the body of the moral law, in the fourth commandment; it had been annexed to the judicial law (Ex 23:12); and here it is added to the first part of the ceremonial law, because the observance of the sabbath is indeed the hem and hedge of the whole law; where no conscience is made of that, farewell both godliness and honesty; for, in the moral law, it stands in the midst between the two tables. Some suggest that it comes in here upon another account. Orders were now given that a tabernacle should be set up and