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Exo 27:1 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.
Ver. 1. **Five cubits long.** ] Solomon’s altar was four times as large as this: to teach that as our peace and prosperity is more than others, so should our service in a due proportion.

Exo 27:2 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.
Ver. 2. **Horns of it.** ] To bind the beasts unto, that were to be slain in sacrifice. Psa 118:27 And to signify the power of Christ’s priesthood. Hab 3:4
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**Thou shalt overlay it with brass.** ] The brass kept the wood; so did the deity of Christ keep his humanity from being consumed by the fire of God’s wrath, wherein it was roasted.

Exo 27:3 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.
Ver. 3. **His shovels, and his basons.** ] These several instruments figured the ministry of the word, say some; the sundry callings that Christ hath in his Church, say others, for her edification.

Exo 27:4 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.
Ver. 4. **A grate.** ] Which served for a hearth, and represented Christ bearing the fire of his Father’s displeasure.

Exo 27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Ver. 7. **And the staves shall be.** ] As ever ready to remove. Here we have no assured settlement.

Exo 27:9 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:
Ver. 9. **The court of the tabernacle.** ] This outer court signified the visible Church, where hypocrites also come to the external worships. Doeg may set his foot as far as David.

Exo 27:10 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.
Ver. 10. **And the twenty pillars.** ] In allusion whereunto, the Church is called the "pillar and stay of truth." 1Ti 3:15

Exo 27:17 All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of] brass.
Ver. 17. **Their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.** ] The nearer things were unto God the more precious they were: and *e contra.*

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Exo 27:20 *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.*
Ver. 20. **Pure oil olive.** ] Signifying the precious gifts and graces of the Spirit in godly ministers, whose lips must both preserve knowledge, and present it to the people.
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**Oil olive beaten.** ] Signifying, saith one, how with much labour and affliction the light of God’s word is to be prepared, and with patience preached and made to shine in his Church. [2 Corinthians 1:4](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/1/4) *;* 2Co 2:4 *; [2 Corinthians 11:21](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/11/21)* *; [2 Corinthians 11:23-25](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/11/23-25)* ** 1Th 2:9

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