“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 31. A candlestick. This candlestick, with its seven lamps, which ws always to give light in the house of God, was a figure of the light of the Holy Ghost, and his seven-fold grace, in the sanctuary of the church of Christ. Challoner.—It contained a talent of gold, or above 113 lb.; worth £5475 sterling, including the snuffers, and so forth (verse 39,) and had seven branches, adorned alternately with cups, bowls, or knobs, and lilies; ( Bible.) or with cups, pomegranates, and lilies. All was of massive gold, moksse.—Bowls, sphærulas, globes, apples, and so forth Calmet.—Thou shalt make. The Hebrew thiasse, has evidently the letter i redundant, and rejected by the best MSS. Ken. Dis. i. Houbigant.