Exodus 31:2
_By name. I have fixed upon and taken into my service, as Isaias xliii. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_By name. I have fixed upon and taken into my service, as Isaias xliii. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spirit. "God, our master, causeth our genius to shew itself." (Seneca, Ben. iv. 4.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Brass. Septuagint add, "and violet, and purple, and scarlet spun, and byssus twisted."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Marble and (or) precious stones. Marble was not used in the tabernacle. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wisdom. Good artists deserve this title, provided they make things of real use. (Origen, hom. 22. Num.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Vessels. Tables, curtains, &c. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Table and (all) the. The Samaritan copy retains the word col, "all," as well as the Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and one Hebrew manuscript, though the printed editions have rejected it. In a Chaldaic manuscript it is also found. The omission, probably was occasioned by the cu... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sabbath. Let not the workmen do any thing for the tabernacle on that day. (Menochius) --- God reiterates and insists particularly on this commandment, which begins with the word remember; because men are so apt to forget, or to transgress a precept, which seems to interfere with those worldly conce... [ Continue Reading ]
_Testimony, to inform men of their duty. --- Written, not by Moses, or by any man, but by God himself, or by an angel. (Chap. xxxiv. 1.; Galatians iii. 19.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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