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In this chapter directions are given, I. Concerning the brazen altar for burnt-offerings, Ex 27:1-8. II. Concerning the court of the tabernacle, with the hangings of it, Ex 27:9-19. III. Concerning oil for the lamp, Ex 27:20,21.
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The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
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会幕与其中的器具（主前 1491 年）
¹ "你要用皂荚木作坛；这坛要五肘长，五肘宽，呈四方形；高三肘。
² 坛的四个拐角上要作四个角，与坛接连一块，用铜把坛包裹。
³ 要作盆，用来收坛上的灰，又作铲子、盘子、肉叉子、火鼎；坛上一切的器具都用铜作。
⁴ 要为坛作一个铜网，在网的四角上作四个铜环。
⁵ 把网安在坛四面的围腰板以下，使网从下达到坛的半腰。
⁶ 又要用皂荚木为坛作杠，用铜包裹。
⁷ 这杠要穿在环子内，在坛的两旁，用来抬坛。
⁸ 坛是空的，都用板作；怎样在山上指示你，他们就要怎样作。"
神既在会幕中向他的百姓彰显他的同在，所以他们要在那里向他献上敬拜，但不是在会幕本身之内（其中只有祭司作为神的家内仆役进去），而是在会幕前的院子里——他们作为普通臣民在那里侍立。那里要设立一座坛，他们要把祭物带到坛前，祭司要在坛上把祭物献给神：而这坛要使他们的礼物成圣。他们在此献上他们对神的事奉，正如神从施恩座向他们赐下神谕；如此神与以色列之间便建立了相交。此处摩西受指教的是：1. 坛的尺寸——它是四方的（出 27:1,2）。2. 坛的角（出 27:2），既为装饰，也为功用；祭物被用绳索绑在坛角上，罪犯也逃到坛角避难。3. 材料——用木包铜（出 27:1,2）。4. 附属的器具（出 27:3），都是铜的。5. 铜网——嵌在坛的中空处，约在坛的中央；其上存火，祭物在其上焚烧；它如筛子般的网状，悬空而挂，使火更旺，使灰可以从网漏下坛的空处（出 27:4,5）。6. 抬坛的杠（出 27:6,7）。最后，他回到所指示的样式（出 27:8）。
这铜坛预表基督为我们赎罪而死：木若没有铜保护，必被天火焚毁；照样，基督的人性若没有神性的扶持，也担当不起神的震怒。基督为他的教会——作为他们的祭坛——自己分别为圣（约 17:19），又借他的中保之工，使百姓每日的事奉成圣；他们也有权柄可吃这祭坛上的物（来 13:10），因为他们作为属灵的祭司在此事奉。当公义追赶可怜的罪人时，他们逃到这坛角避难；因着坛上所献的祭，他们便得安全。
⁹ "你要作帐幕的院子：院子的南面，当有捻的细麻帷子，长一百肘，为这边的一面。
¹⁰ 帷子的柱子二十根，带卯的铜座二十个；柱子上的钩子和杆子都要用银子作。
¹¹ 北面也当有帷子长一百肘，帷子的柱子二十根，带卯的铜座二十个；柱子上的钩子和杆子都要用银子作。
¹² 院子的西面，当有帷子宽五十肘；帷子的柱子十根，带卯的座十个。
¹³ 院子的东面，宽也当五十肘。
¹⁴ 门这边的帷子要十五肘；帷子的柱子三根，带卯的座三个。
¹⁵ 门那边的帷子也要十五肘；帷子的柱子三根，带卯的座三个。
¹⁶ 院子的门当有帘子，长二十肘，要用蓝色、紫色、朱红色线和捻的细麻，用绣花的手工织成；帷子的柱子四根，带卯的座四个。
¹⁷ 院子四围一切的柱子，都要用银杆连络；柱子上的钩子要用银子作，带卯的座要用铜作。
¹⁸ 院子要长一百肘，宽五十肘，高五肘；帷子都要用捻的细麻作，帷子带卯的座都要用铜作。
¹⁹ 帐幕各样用处的器具，并帐幕一切的橛子，和院子里一切的橛子，都要用铜作。"
会幕之前要有一个院子或场地，用最细的、为帐棚所用的细麻帷子围起来。这院子，按通常肘尺的计算，长约五十码，宽约二十五码。在适当的距离立起柱子，安在铜座上；柱子用银杆连络，柱上有银钩，细麻帷子便挂在其上；作门的帷子比其余的更精致（出 27:16）。这院子预表教会——与世界分别出来、被围起来；围栏由柱子支撑，表明教会的稳固；悬挂洁白的细麻，那被称为圣徒的义（启 19:8）。这些院子是大卫所渴慕、所切慕居住的（诗 84:2,10），也是神的百姓存赞美感谢进入的（诗 100:4）；然而这院子只能容纳少数敬拜者。感谢神，如今在福音之下，围栏已经拆除。神的旨意是要人随处祷告；在每一个求告耶稣基督之名的地方，都有容纳所有人的空间。
²⁰ "你要吩咐以色列人，把那为点灯捣成的清橄榄油拿来给你，使灯常常点着。
²¹ 在会幕中法柜前的幔子外，亚伦和他的儿子，从晚上到早晨，要在耶和华面前经理这灯；这要作以色列人世世代代永远的定例。"
第二十五章记载了灯台；此处吩咐要使灯台上的灯常常点着，否则灯台便形同虚设；每个灯台都当有发光照耀的灯；没有灯的灯台，正如无水之井，又如无雨之云。1. 百姓要供给油；主的仆人要从他们得着养生之物。或更确切说，清橄榄油预表圣灵的恩赐与恩典——这恩赐与恩典是从那好橄榄树基督传给一切信徒的，我们从他的丰满中领受（亚 4:11,12）；没有这恩典，我们的光便不能照在人前。2. 祭司要点灯，并经理这些灯；使灯常常点着，日夜不熄，这是他们每日事奉的一部分；照样，传道人借传讲和讲解圣经（圣经就是灯）来照亮教会——就是神在地上的帐幕——并引导属灵的祭司事奉神。这要作为永远的定例——即神的话之灯，要像祈祷赞美的香那样，按时点燃。
英語原文
The Tabernacle and Its Furniture (1491 BC)
¹ And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
² And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
³ And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
⁴ And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
⁵ And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
⁶ And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
⁷ And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
⁸ Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
As God intended in the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God's domestic servants), but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as common subjects, they attended. There an altar was ordered to be set up, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which their priests must offer them to God: and this altar was to sanctify their gifts. Here they were to present their services to God, as from the mercy-seat he gave his oracles to them; and thus a communion was settled between God and Israel. Moses is here directed about, 1. The dimensions of it; it was square, Ex 27:1,2. 2. The horns of it (Ex 27:2), which were for ornament and for use; the sacrifices were bound with cords to the horns of the altar, and to them malefactors fled for refuge. 3. The materials; it was of wood overlaid with brass, Ex 27:1,2. 4. The appurtenances of it (Ex 27:3), which were all of brass. 5. The grate, which was let into the hollow of the altar, about the middle of it, in which the fire was kept, and the sacrifice burnt; it was made of network like a sieve, and hung hollow, that the fire might burn the better, and that the ashes might fall through into the hollow of the altar, Ex 27:4,5. 6. The staves with which it must be carried, Ex 27:6,7. And, lastly, he is referred to the pattern shown him, Ex 27:8.
Now this brazen altar was a type of Christ dying to make atonement for our sins: the wood would have been consumed by the fire from heaven if it had not been secured by the brass; nor could the human nature of Christ have borne the wrath of God if it had not been supported by a divine power. Christ sanctified himself for his church, as their altar (Joh 17:19), and by his mediation sanctifies the daily services of his people, who have also a right to eat of this altar (Heb 13:10), for they serve at it as spiritual priests. To the horns of this altar poor sinners fly for refuge when justice pursues them, and they are safe in virtue of the sacrifice there offered.
⁹ And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
¹⁰ And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
¹¹ And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
¹² And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
¹³ And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
¹⁴ The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
¹⁵ And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
¹⁶ And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
¹⁷ All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
¹⁸ The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
¹⁹ All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
Before the tabernacle there was to be a court or yard, enclosed with hangings of the finest linen that was used for tents. This court, according to the common computation of cubits, was fifty yards long, and twenty-five broad. Pillars were set up at convenient distances, in sockets of brass, the pillars filleted with silver, and silver tenter-hooks in them, on which the linen hangings were fastened: the hanging which served for the gate was finer than the rest, Ex 27:16. This court was a type of the church, enclosed and distinguished from the rest of the world, the enclosure supported by pillars, denoting the stability of the church, hung with the clean linen, which is said to be the righteousness of saints, Re 19:8. These were the courts David longed for and coveted to reside in (Ps 84:2,10), and into which the people of God entered with praise and thanksgiving (Ps 100:4); yet this court would contain but a few worshippers. Thanks be to God, now, under the gospel, the enclosure is taken down. God's will is that men pray everywhere; and there is room for all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ.
²⁰ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
²¹ In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
We read of the candlestick in the twenty-fifth chapter; here is an order given for the keeping of the lamps constantly burning in it, else it was useless; in every candlestick there should be a burning and shining light; candlesticks without candles are as wells without water or as clouds without rain. Now, 1. The people were to provide the oil; from them the Lord's ministers must have their maintenance. Or, rather, the pure oil signified the gifts and graces of the Spirit, which are communicated to all believers from Christ the good olive, of whose fulness we receive (Zec 4:11,12), and without which our light cannot shine before men. 2. The priests were to light the lamps, and to tend them; it was part of their daily service to cause the lamp to burn always, night and day; thus it is the work of ministers, by the preaching and expounding of the scriptures (which are as a lamp), to enlighten the church, God's tabernacle upon the earth, and to direct the spiritual priests in his service. This is to be a statute for ever, that the lamps of the word be lighted as duly as the incense of prayer and praise is offered.
本章所赐的指示如下：I. 论燔祭所用的铜祭坛（出27:1-8）。II. 论会幕的院子，以及院子的帷子（出27:9-19）。III. 论灯台所用的橄榄油（出27:20-21）。