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duty_n	day_n	lord_n	week_n	2,075	5	9.7497	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48446	The temple, especially as it stood in the dayes of Our Saviovr described by John Lightfoote.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing L2071; ESTC R15998	245,293	304

Court as we shall shew anon and they were baked on the day before the Sabbeth On the Sabbath they set them on the table in this manner Four Priests went first in to setch away the loaves that had stood all the week and other four went in after them to bring in new ones in their stead Two of the four last carried the two rowes of the cakes namely six a peace and the other two carried in either of them in a golden dish in which the frankincense was to be put to be set upon the loaves and so those four that went to fetch out the old bread two of them were to carry the cakes and the other two the dishes These foure that came to fetch the old bread out stood before the table with their faces towards the North and the other four that brought in the new stood betwixt the table and the wall with their faces toward the South those drew off the old cakes and these as the other went off slipt on the new so that the table was never without bread upon it because it is said that they should stand before the Lord continually They set the cakes in two rowes six and six one upon another and they set them the length of the cakes crosse over the breadth of the table by which it appeares that the crowne of gold about the table rose not above the surface of it but was a border below edging even with the plain of it [b] R Sol in Exod. 25. as is well held by Rabbi Solomon and so the cakes lay two hand bread the over the table on either fide for the table was but six hand breadth broad and the cakes were ten hand breadth long Now as for the preventing that that which so lay over should not break off if they had no other way to prevent it which yet they had but I confesse that the description of it in their authors I doe not understand yet their manner of laying the cakes one upon another was such as that the weight rested upon the table and not upon the points that hung over The lowest cake of either rowe they laid upon the plaine table and upon that cake they laid three golden canes at distance one from another and upon those they laid the next cake and then three golden canes again and upon them another cake and so of the rest save only that they laid but two such canes upon the fifth cake because there was but one cake more to be laid upon Now these which I cal golden canes and the Hebrews call them so also were not like reeds or canes perfectly round and hallow thorow but they were like canes or kexes slit up the middle and the reason of laying them thus betwixt cake and cake was that by their hollowness air might come to every cake and all might thereby bee kept the better from moldinesse and corrupting and thus did the cake lie hollow and one not touching another and all the golden canes being laid so as that that they lay within the compasse of the breadth of the table the ends of the cakes that lay over the table on either side bare no burden but their own weight On the top of either row was set a golden dish with a handfull of frankincense which when the bread was taken away was burnt as incense to the Lord Lev. 24.7 and the bread went to Aaron and his sons or to the Priests as their portions to be eaten What these loaves did represent and signifie is variously guessed the number of twelve in two rowes seem to referre to the twelve tribes whose names were so divided into six and six in the two stones on the high Priests shoulders And as bread is the chief subsistence and staffe of our mortall life so the offering of these might denote an acknowledgement of the people of their receiving of all their subsistence from the Lord to whom they presented these as their tribute and these aswell as the lamps standing before the Lord might shew that their spirituall and temporall support were both before him But our pursuit is to looke after the things themselves leaving the allegorizing of them unto others for in such things men are most commonly more ready to give satisfaction to themselves then to take it from others for as much as the things themselves may be bended and swayed to various application Sect. 6. The Altar of Iucense THe Candlestick stood on the one side of the house and the Table on the other and this Altar in the middle not just betwixt them but somewhat higher in the house toward the most holy place then they were These three ornaments and furnitures of the holy place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 [a] Maym in Beth habbec per. 3. were set in a third part of the house that is whereas the house meaning the holy place was forty cubits long when you had gone up six and twenty cubits and two third parts of a cubit into the room there stood the table and candlestick and somewhat further higher towards the vail stood this Altar [b] Ex 30.1 2. Maym. ubi sup It was a cubit square and two cubits high had foure horns at the foure corners of it and a crown about the brim or edge of it which the Jews say denoted the Crowne of the Priesthood It stood not so nigh the vail of the most holy place but that one might goe about it and so how the Priest did on the day of Explation and besprinkled the horns of it with blood we observe elsewhere On this Altar commonly called the golden Altar incense was offered morning and evening every day a figure if you apply the action to Christ of his mediation and if to man a resemblance of the duty of prayer The twelve cakes which resembled the sustenance and sustentation of the twelve Tribes which was ever before the Lord were renewed only once every week but the lampsdrest and the incense offered twice every day for we have more need of the light of Gods word and of prayer then of our dayly food And if we will apply all the three to Christ The Kingly office of Christ provided bread for his people his Prophetick office provided the light of his word and his Priestly office the incense of mediation CHAP. XV. The most Holy place Sect. I. The Partition space 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Holy and the most Holy place were divided asunder by a threefold partition namely by a cubit space and by two veils on either side of that space The partition space which [a] Mid. per. 4. was a cubit broad and no more by the Jews is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which [b] Aruch in voce Rabbi Nathan confesseth to be a Greek word and he saith it signifieth within or without as meaning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was doubtfull to them whether is were within or without and thus it is