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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)
會幕與其中的器具（主前1491年）
¹ 「你要用皂莢木做壇。這壇要五肘長，五肘寬，四面見方；這壇要高三肘。
² 壇的四角上要做四個角，與壇接連一塊，用銅把壇包裹。
³ 要做盆，收去壇上的灰，又做鏟子、盤子、肉鍤子、火鼎；壇上一切的器具都用銅做。
⁴ 要為壇做一個銅網，在網的四角上做四個銅環，
⁵ 把網安在壇四面的圍腰板以下，使網從下達到壇的半腰。
⁶ 又要用皂莢木為壇做槓，用銅包裹。
⁷ 這槓要穿在壇兩旁的環子內，用以抬壇。
⁸ 要用板做壇，壇是空的，都照着在山上指示你的樣式做。」
正如神定意在會幕中彰顯他同在於他百姓中間，照樣他們要在那裏向他獻上敬拜，不是在會幕之內（那裏只有祭司作為神的內宅僕人才可進入），而是在會幕前的院中，作為普通臣民在那裏侍候。那裏設立了一座壇，他們要將祭物帶到其前，他們的祭司要在其上向神獻上：這壇要使他們的禮物成聖。他們在那裏向神獻上事奉，正如神從施恩座向他們發出神諭；這樣神與以色列之間便設立了相交。摩西在此受指示關乎：（1）壇的尺寸；它是四方形的（出二十七1、2）。（2）壇的四角（出二十七2），既為裝飾也為實用；祭物用繩索拴在壇角上，罪犯也逃到那裏求庇護。（3）材料；是包銅的木（出二十七1、2）。（4）附屬器具（出二十七3），都是銅的。（5）銅網，嵌入壇的中空處，約在壇的半腰，用以盛火、燒祭物；它如篩子般的網狀，懸空掛起，使火燃燒更好，灰燼可落在壇的空處（出二十七4、5）。（6）抬壇的槓（出二十七6、7）。最後，他被引到所指示的樣式前（出二十七8）。
這銅壇是基督為我們的罪捨命作挽回祭的預表：木若非有銅保護，必被從天降下的火燒毀；照樣基督的人性若非有神能托住，也不能承受神的震怒。基督為他的教會分別自己為聖，作他們的壇（約十七19），又藉他的中保使他百姓每日的事奉成聖；他們也有權吃這壇上的祭物（來十三10），因為他們作屬靈的祭司在那裏事奉。可憐的罪人在公義追趕他們時逃到這壇角求庇護，便因在那裏所獻的祭而得安全。
⁹ 「你要做帳幕的院子。院子的南面，要用撚的細麻做帷子，每面長一百肘。
¹⁰ 帷子的柱子要二十根，帶卯的銅座二十個。柱子上的鉤子和橫樑都要用銀子做。
¹¹ 北面也當有帷子，長一百肘；帷子的柱子二十根，帶卯的銅座二十個。柱子上的鉤子和橫樑都要用銀子做。
¹² 院子的西面當有帷子，寬五十肘；帷子的柱子十根，帶卯的座十個。
¹³ 院子的東面要寬五十肘。
¹⁴ 門這邊的帷子要十五肘；帷子的柱子三根，帶卯的座三個。
¹⁵ 門那邊的帷子也要十五肘；帷子的柱子三根，帶卯的座三個。
¹⁶ 院子的門當有簾子，寬二十肘，要用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，和撚的細麻，用繡花手工織成；柱子四根，帶卯的座四個。
¹⁷ 院子四圍一切的柱子都要用銀橫樑連絡。柱子上的鉤子要用銀做，帶卯的座要用銅做。
¹⁸ 院子要長一百肘，寬五十肘，高五肘，帷子都要用撚的細麻，帶卯的座要用銅做。
¹⁹ 帳幕各樣用處的器具，並帳幕一切的橛子，和院子一切的橛子，都要用銅做。」
會幕前要有院子或院場，用帳棚所用的最上等細麻帷子圍起來。按通行的肘計算，這院子長五十碼，寬二十五碼。在適當距離立起柱子，安在銅座上，柱子以銀橫樑連絡，柱上有銀鉤，細麻帷子便掛在其上；用作院門的帷子比其餘的更精緻（出二十七16）。這院子預表教會，從世界中圈出來、分別出來；圍牆由柱子支撐，表示教會的穩固；掛着潔白的細麻，這細麻被說為是聖徒的義（啟十九8）。這些就是大衛所羨慕渴想居住的院宇（詩八十四2、10），也是神的百姓帶着讚美和感恩進入的（詩一○○4）；然而這院子只能容納少數敬拜者。感謝神，如今在福音之下，圍牆已經拆去。神的旨意是要人在各處禱告；凡在各地求告耶穌基督之名的人，都有容身之處。
²⁰ 「你要吩咐以色列人，把那為點燈搗成的清橄欖油拿來給你，使燈常常點着。
²¹ 在會幕中法櫃前的幔子外，亞倫和他的兒子，從晚上到早晨，要在耶和華面前經理這燈。這要作以色列人世世代代永遠的定例。」
我們在第二十五章讀到燈臺；此處命令要保持燈盞常常點着，否則燈臺便毫無用處；每一個燈臺都應當有點着、發亮的光；沒有蠟燭的燈臺如同沒有水的井或沒有雨的雲。如今：（1）百姓要預備油；主的僕人要從他們得着供養。或者更確切地說，清橄欖油預表聖靈的恩賜和恩典，是從那好橄欖樹基督傳給一切信徒的，我們都從他的豐盛中領受（亞四11、12）；沒有它，我們的光便不能在人前照耀。（2）祭司要點燈並看守；使燈常常點着是他們每日事奉的一部分，無論晝夜；照樣，傳道人藉着傳講和解明聖經（聖經如同燈），照亮教會──神在地上的會幕，並引導屬靈的祭司盡心事奉，這便是他們的工作。這要作永遠的定例：道的燈盞當按時點亮，正如禱告和讚美的香按時獻上。
英文原文
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.
本章賜下指示：一、關乎燔祭壇，是銅做的，出 27:1-8。二、關乎會幕的院子及其帷子，出 27:9-19。三、關乎點燈用的油，出 27:20,21。