olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah, or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things relating to the upper world, but they were things which it was not lawful nor possible to utter; and therefore, in the records he kept of the transactions there, he...
Commenting on Exodus 25:1-9
Oil for the light,.... For the light of the lamps in the candlestick: this was oil olive, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi, see Exo 27:20, spices for anointing oil; for the anointing of Aaron and his sons, and the tabernacle and its vessels, such as pure myrrh, sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus, and cassia: and for sweet incense; as stacte, onycha, and galbanum...
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, (d) Ordained for the priest.