He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. A candlestick, and so forth The temple of God that was then in building; and in a more sublime sense, the Church of Christ. Challoner.—Some, with the Jews, apply this to the synagogue: but most explain it of the Church, the lamp denoting Christ, and the seven lights all his pastors; the two olives, Enoch and Elias. Revelation 11. Worthington.—The angel explains the latter of Jesus and Zorobabel. verse 14. The lights are the same with the angels, (verse 10) and eyes, (Calmet. 3:9) subservient to these great men. Perhaps no candlestick of this description ever existed, though it alludes to that of Moses in some respects. Exodus 37. Calmet.—Lamp. Hebrew gullah, ( Bible.) a round vessel for oil. Menochius.—It was filled from the two olive-trees, and supplied the seven lights by tubes. Bible.