Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1874. Excerpt: ... Posts.--The posts of the temple are clearly explained in Amos, ix. 1, to be the priests and elders. The lintel above, which unites them together, makes then collectively the college of priests, the hierarchy. The same as the pillars of the court of the tabernacle (Exod. xxvii. 10-17: Rev- m. 12); and probably as the upright boards of the temple itself (Exod. xxvi. 18-29); and the palm-trees which were carved upon them (1 Kings, vi. 29); and upon the posts themselves (Ezek. xl. 26, 31, 34, 37) The lintel, or upper door-post, and side-posts of their own houses, on the other hand, had a different signification, Exod. xii. 7, 22. The lintel was the mind and understanding--the doctrine and belief; the side-posts were the hands and feet-- the deeds and actions, the walk and conversation in life. Sect. XVI.--Numbers. One. 1. The first day of the week, Mark, xvi. 9: John, xx. 26; the first day of the month, or the -new moon, Num. x. 10; xxviii. 11: 1 Sam. xx. 5, 18: Ps. lxxxi. 3: Ezek. xlvi. 1, 6 ; the first month, Exod. xii. 2; the first year (of the reign of Jotham, because the year in which Uzziah died, Isai. vi. i) in which Isaiah saw the vision of the glory of Christ; the fiftieth year, that is, the first year after the expiration of the forty-nine years to the jubilee, Lev. xxv. 8, 10, 1 1 ;--all meant the same thing, namely, the resurrection of Christ, and His redeeming us, and entering as our forerunner into the land of eternal rest and blessedness. 2. The First-born, -- Signify the elect: the same as the first-fruits. Heb. xi. 23, the church of the first-born; Jam. i. 18, a kind of first-fruits of His creatures; Rev. xiv. 4, these are they which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth: these were redeemed from a...
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