And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
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 thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy,.... By anointing them, and so be set apart for sacred uses only; as by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the people of God, the vessels of mercy, are really sanctified, and made meet for the master's use; and therefore it is called the sanctification of the Spirit, which is true holiness, in opposition...
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