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Is it difficult to believe that God was filled with anger against the wickedness of Israel, and yet that He exercised forbearance toward them when His beloved and honoured servant offered to give himself up in their stead? Perhaps it is difficult, but it is impossible to believe otherwise, that is assuming the main historical events to be true, of course. All this, however, should not hinder us from reverently contemplating what the scripture has revealed, whether by type or abstract statement. The boundary line between devotion and profanity is not passed to long as we keep within what God has been pleased to disclose. In the components of the ointment and perfume before us, for instance, we can perceive the elements of light-giving (in the olive oil); elements which express an inward origin (as the myrrh), an inward shield (as the cinnamon), an outward characteristic (as the cassia).
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Many cases of course where there have been, even with these “monthly prognosticators,” happy shots, they could not always be wrong; but as to really foreseeing what is still future, nonsense! Even the most astute and learned are grotesquely often wrong when they forecast a week ahead. “A false prophet is a tautological expression.” Do you remember that Abbé who wrote the book proving that the Swedish constitution was now permanently settled, and while he was revising the proofs of the book, Gustavus III. Or the great and far-sighted Metternich who said the disturbances in Vienna would be “nothing much,” and four days after was flying for his life from his ruined house? Or how Napoleon sent off the messenger to Paris from Waterloo announcing that he had won the battle, just a couple of hours before his defeat?
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In extreme cases such inconsistency is repugnant, and the natural reflection suggested is, “Physician heal thyself.” Pope calls Bacon “the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind;” and of a celebrated preacher it was said, that when he was in the pulpit (he talked so well that) he never should go out; and when out of it (he “walked” so badly that) he never should go in. Demosthenes made such soul-stirring orations against Philip that the Greeks who heard him rose and cried for arms; but whilst they were using them, Demosthenes himself preferred to use his legs (at Chaeronea). Truth is however so valuable that no matter from whom it comes, we should not let the speaker’s inconsistencies hinder our reception of it. Halting, Jacob’s life might have been; but his words were generally peculiarly wise, beautiful, and pathetic. Here at the close, as was feigned of the swan, “Death darkens his eyes and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings.” – Donne. Yet for all this Jacob’s thought is correct; for was not this stone — which had been his pillow of rest and was now his pillar of witness — Christ Himself?
And each branch of the candlestick is made with a flower, and the developing fruit (knop) behind it. As light-givers, however, the source of power is the Holy Ghost, symbolised by the usual figure of the oil; even our Lord Himself, the central shaft, gives light in this way, that is, by the power of the Holy Ghost. This light shines continually on the table upon which in symbol the redeemed are exalted, covered with frankincense in the divine presence. As Jacob’s seven years’ service for Rachel suggests Christ’s becoming a servant in order to win the church, so this represents an everlasting service willingly undertaken in order to retain it. The depth of love and the height of devotion here implied only seem the more infinitely beyond our contemplation the more we meditate upon them.
But it is to the ministry by human agents that we are directed in this passage. Bezaleel and his assistants took the rough-hewn members of the tabernacle as they were brought, and by their patient and ingenious care, design and labour, they gradually developed and perfected the character of each, till they were formed finally into one glorious and harmonious whole. We are called to be cunning artificers in human souls, so to care for, study, and act upon, one another as that the impression of the divine idea shall be wrought out in each according to his position, nature, and capacity. It is especially true that it is “by faith we understand” in reference to heavenly things, whether they be physical or spiritual.