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Ex 37:1-29.
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Ex 37:1-29.
FURNITURE OF THE TABERNACLE.
1. Bezaleel made the ark--The description here given of the things within the sacred edifice is almost word for word the same as that contained in
Ex 25:1-40.
It is not on that account to be regarded as a useless repetition of minute particulars; for by the enumeration of these details, it can be seen how exactly everything was fashioned according to the "pattern shown on the mount"
[Ex 25:40];
and the knowledge of this exact correspondence between the prescription and the execution was essential to the purposes of the fabric.
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6-10. 用精金做施恩座——要凭锤子从一块实心的金子,锤出一个形像——无论是兽身或人身,带着两片张开的翅膀,两翅之间自两英尺至三英尺不等——这是今日少有匠人——若有的话——所能做到的。
英文原文
6-10. made the mercy seat of pure gold--To construct a figure, whether the body of a beast or a man, with two extended wings, measuring from two to three feet from tip to tip, with the hammer, out of a solid piece of gold, was what few, if any, artisans of the present day could accomplish.
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17-22. 他用精金做一个灯台——注重实际的读者或许会说:「既然铸造要容易得多——他们对此工艺也很熟悉——为何要用锤子做这些工呢?」唯一能给的答复是:这是照着吩咐而行的。我们毫不怀疑,如此独特的吩咐自有其缘由,有某种深意,只是没有向我们启示[NAPIER]。整座圣所的安排,目的在于借着每一部分的设备,灌输启示的基本大原则。每一物件都是重要真理的象征——每一件器具都是某条教义或本分的象形文字——在那座可移动建筑的地上和四壁,借着针对视觉的象征性记号,展示了福音全备的救赎方案。这一属灵教训每一代以色列人领受到什么程度,也许不易断定。但会幕正如它作为其中一部分的律法一样,是训蒙的师傅,引导人归向基督
[加 3:24, 25]。
正如学校的墙上常见贴满了图画,使孩童以合乎其理解力、足以抓住他们浮动心灵的方式,常常记得敬虔与美德之功课;照样,会幕也借其陈设和一切安排,作为「将来美事的影儿」
[来 10:1]。
如此看来,本章关于约柜和施恩座、陈设饼桌子、灯台、香坛和圣油的详尽描述,具有极大的功用和重要性;虽然其中有些只是装饰性的附属物,如球和花,然而神将这些引入会幕,正显示祂将真花引入自然界以吸引并悦人眼目时,所显的同一智慧与良善。
英文原文
17-22. he made the candlestick of pure gold--Practical readers will be apt to say, "Why do such works with the hammer, when they could have been cast so much easier--a process they were well acquainted with?" The only answer that can be given is, that it was done according to order. We have no doubt but there were reasons for so distinctive an order, something significant, which has not been revealed to us [NAPIER]. The whole of that sacred building was arranged with a view to inculcate through every part of its apparatus the great fundamental principles of revelation. Every object was symbolical of important truth--every piece of furniture was made the hieroglyphic of a doctrine or a duty--on the floor and along the sides of that movable edifice was exhibited, by emblematic signs addressed to the eye, the whole remedial scheme of the gospel. How far this spiritual instruction was received by every successive generation of the Israelites, it may not be easy to determine. But the tabernacle, like the law of which it was a part, was a schoolmaster to Christ
[Ga 3:24, 25].
Just as the walls of schools are seen studded with pictorial figures, by which the children, in a manner level to their capacities and suited to arrest their volatile minds, are kept in constant and familiar remembrance of the lessons of piety and virtue, so the tabernacle was intended by its furniture and all its arrangements to serve as a "shadow of good things to come"
[Heb 10:1].
In this view, the minute description given in this chapter respecting the ark and mercy seat, the table of showbread, the candlestick, the altar of incense, and the holy oil, were of the greatest utility and importance; and though there are a few things that are merely ornamental appendages, such as the knops and the flowers, yet, in introducing these into the tabernacle, God displayed the same wisdom and goodness as He has done by introducing real flowers into the kingdom of nature to engage and gratify the eye of man.
出埃及记 37:1-29.
会幕的 器物
1. 比撒列造约柜——此处对圣所内器物的描述,几乎与
出 25:1-40
的记载逐字相同。这并非因此就可视为对细枝末节的无谓重复;因为借着列举这些细节,可以看见每一样物件是何等精确地照着「在山上指示你的样式」造成
[出 25:40];
而认识这种吩咐与执行之间的完全相符,对于会幕建造的目的乃是必不可少的。