And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
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
That the same oil Moses made lasted through all the generations is a notion justly exploded; so small a quantity cannot have sufficed without miracle, and nothing forbids it being made again in like manner for sacred use, though not for any private or profane use.
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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