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Ex 37:1-29.
英文原文
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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無標題
6-10. 用純金做施恩座——以錘子從一整塊金子中，造出一個形像——無論是獸身或人身——連同兩片張開的翅膀、翅尖到翅尖量起來達二至三英呎，這是今日少有工匠——若有的話——能以勝任的。
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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無標題
17-22. 他用純金做燈臺——務實的讀者會問：「為甚麼用錘子做這些工，而不用他們熟知的、容易得多的的鑄造法？」所能給的惟一回答是：這是照著命令行的。我們毫不懷疑，如此特別的命令有其原因，有某種未向我們啟示的意義在內〔NAPIER〕。整座神聖建築物的安排，都是為要藉著其每一部分向人灌輸啟示的根本大原則。每一件物件都是重要真理的象徵——每一件家具都被造成某種教義或本分的象徵文字——在那可搬移的建築物的地面和兩側，藉著向眼目說話的象徵記號，展示了福音整套救贖的方案。這屬靈的教訓被每一代以色列人領受了多深，未必容易斷定。但會幕與它所屬的律法一樣，是引人到基督面前的師傅
〔加 3:24, 25〕。 正如學校的牆上貼滿了圖畫——孩童在其能力所及、並適合吸引其易散的心的方式下，恆常被提醒敬虔與美德功課——照樣會幕也藉其家具和一切安排，作為「將來美事的影兒」
〔來 10:1〕。 照此觀點，本章關於約櫃與施恩座、陳設餅桌子、燈臺、香壇和聖油的詳細描述，具有極大的用處和重要性；雖然有少數幾樣只是裝飾性的附屬品，如球和花，但上帝將這些引入會幕，正如祂將真花引入自然界以吸引並悅人眼目一般，同樣彰顯了其智慧與良善。
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.
Ex 37:1-29.
會幕的器具。
1. 比撒列造櫃——此處對聖所內部事物的描述，與
Ex 25:1-40
中的記載幾乎逐字相同。但這不能因此被視為瑣碎細節的無謂重複；因為藉著列舉這些細節，可以看出每一件物件是如何精確地照著「在山上指示你的樣式」
〔Ex 25:40〕
造成的；而知道這吩咐與執行之間的精確對應，對這建築物的目的而言是不可或缺的。