and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
God Himself appointed the spices and their quantities because nothing comes to Him but what comes from Him; the oil was compounded with exact art, infused, strained, and left sweetly fragrant for the tent and all its furniture, and for consecrating the priests in their generations.
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Commenting on Exodus 30:22-38
And the table, and all his vessels,.... The shewbread table, with all things appertaining to it, rings, staves, dishes, spoons, bowls, &c. all were anointed; which had respect to Christ, and the communion of his people with him, feeding on him, that food which endures for ever, whom God the Father has sealed and sanctified: and the candlestick and his vessels; an emblem of the...
This oil was holy because God declared this mixture and preparation holy, and forbade its imitation on pain of death; it was not to anoint ordinary flesh but only the priests, and any layman using it was cut off from his people.
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Commenting on Exodus 30:26-33