_Twisted, for greater strength, with double threads. (Du Hamel) --- Diversified, &c. Hebrew, "cherubim wrought by a skilful workman." A cherubic work is one extremely diversified, and wonderful; representing birds, flowers, monsters; either in gold, wood, painting, or tapestry. When it is done with... [ Continue Reading ]
_Five curtains, which would cover half the tabernacle, or 20 cubits. (Calmet) --- Being joined together, they remind us of fraternal charity and union; which ought to adorn the members of the church. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rings. Hooks or taches, ver. 11._... [ Continue Reading ]
_A cubit. As these curtains were two cubits longer, and four broader, than those more precious ones below, they hung down to the ground. Josephus, [Antiquities?] iii. 5._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Skins. These two were probably as large as the last, to keep out rain; (Menochius) though the text only specifies the roof._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mortises, (incastraturæ). Hebrew, "tenons," which corresponded with the former. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Corners. Hebrew tenons, literally, "hands," which has the same meaning as the Vulgate. Some think, the sockets or bases rested on the ground, and had a point which entered into the boards, to keep them in their places. (Lyranus) --- The ornaments on the north and south were the same. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Six, at the western end, with two other strong boards, or pillars, to connect the whole, as they were placed at the two corners, and were half a cubit each. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bars, 30 cubits long, on two sides, and ten on the western end, to fasten the boards._... [ Continue Reading ]
_A veil, to hang before the entrance of the tabernacle, at the east side, which had no boards. Within was the ark, ver. 33. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heads. Chaptrels of setim-wood, overlaid with gold, --- ( Vovim), not little hooks for curtains. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The sanctuary, &c. That part of the tabernacle, which was without the veil, into which the priests daily entered, is here called the sanctuary, or holy place; that part which was within the veil, into which no one but the high priest ever went in, and he but once a year, is called the holy of holie... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hanging, or veil, suspended on five pillars, before the sanctuary. (Haydock) --- It was the other veil, which was rent at the death of Christ. Baronius observes, that Christian temples were formerly built in imitation of the Jewish tabernacle. It was a figure of the Catholic church, 1 Timothy iii.... [ Continue Reading ]
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