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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
(SEE FROM TABERNACLE)
The front of the sanctuary was closed by a hanging of fine linen, embroidered
in blue, purple and scarlet, and supported by golden hooks on five pillars of
shittim wood overlaid with gold and standing in brass sockets; and the covering
of goats hair was so made as to fall down over this when required. A more sumptuous
curtain of the same kind, embroidered with cherubim hung on four such pillars,
with silver sockets, divided the holy from the most holy place. It was called
the veil, (Sometimes the second veil, either is reference to the first, at the
entrance of the holy place, or as below the vail of the second sanctuary;) ( Hebrews
9:3 ) as it hid from the eyes of all but the high priest the inmost sanctuary,
where Jehovah dwells on his mercy-seat, between the cherubim above the ark. Hence
"to enter within the veil" is to have the closest access to God. It was only passed
by the high priest once a year, on the Day of Atonement in token of the mediation
of Christ, who with his own blood hath entered for us within the veil which separates
Gods own abode from earth. ( Hebrews
6:19 ) In the temple, the solemn barrier was at length profaned by a Roman
conqueror, to warn the Jews that the privileges they had forfeited were "ready
to vanish away;" and the veil was at last rent by the hand of God himself, at
the same moment that the body of Christ was rent upon the cross, to indicate that
the entrance into the holiest of all is now laid open to all believers by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through
the veil, that is to say, his flesh." ( Hebrews
10:19 ,
10:20 ) The holy place was only entered by the priests daily, to offer incense
at the time of morning and evening prayer, and to renew the lights on the golden
candlesticks; and on the sabbath, to remove the old shew-bread, and to place the
new upon the table.
(SEE FROM TEMPLE)
As in the tabernacle, the temple consisted of three parts, the porch, the holy
place, and the holy of holies. The front of the porch was supported, after the
manner of some Egyptian temples, by the two great brazen pillars, Jachin and Boaz,
18 cubits high, with capitals of 5 cubits more, adorned with lily-work and pomegranates.
( 1
Kings 7:15 - 22
) The places of the two "veils" of the tabernacle were occupied by partitions,
in which were folding-doors. The whole interior was lines with woodwork richly
carved and overlaid with gold. Indeed, both within and without the building was
conspicuously chiefly by the lavish use of the gold of Ophir and Parvaim. It glittered
in the morning sun (it has been well said) like the sanctuary of an El Dorado.
Above the sacred ark, which was placed, as of old, in the most holy place, were
made new cherubim, one pair of whose wings met above the ark, and another pair
reached to the walls behind them. In the holy place, besides the altar of incense,
which was made of cedar overlaid with gold there were seven golden candlesticks
in stead of one, and the table of shew-bread was replaced by ten golden tables,
bearing, besides the shew bread, the innumerable golden vessels for the service
of the sanctuary.
T. Whitelaw
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