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EXODUS CHAPTER 25
Moses is commanded to take a free-will offering to set up the tabernacle, and of what, Exo_25:1-7. God commands him to make a sanctuary, Exo_25:8; chargeth him how and whereof to make a tabernacle, Exo_25:9. The form of the ark, Exo_25:10-16. The mercy-seat, Exo_25:17-22. The table for the shew-bread, with other utensils, Exo_25:23-30. Of the candlestick, with its employment, and other furnitures for the tabernacle, Exo_25:31-39. Moses is commanded to make it answerable to the pattern which he saw in the mount, Exo_25:40.
Having delivered the moral and judicial laws, he now comes to the ceremonial law, wherein he sets down all things very minutely and particularly, whereas in the other laws he was content to lay down general rules, and leaveth many other things to be by analogy deduced from them. The reason of the difference seems to be this, that the light of reason implanted in all men, gives him greater help in the discovery of moral and judicial things than in ceremonial matters, or in the external way and manner of God’s worship; which is a thing depending wholly upon God’s institution, and not left to man’s invention, which is a very incompetent judge of those things, as appears from hence, because the wittiest men, destitute of God’s revelation, have been guilty of most foolery in their devices of God’s worship.