notes the holy place or sanctuary, in antithesis to ay/a Aoty o/ holies. Some have ay/a in this place.1
3. 'H Xtyopsvy, which is called) So ver. 2, Xi/sra/, ^s called. The opposite is r£v aX^/i^y, o/ £/^ true, ver. 24.
4. XpvffoZv, golden) The apostle uses such words as signify something precious and glorious, as do^g, q/ glory, ver. 5. — OvtAiarripiov) censer. So the LXX. express miapD, a censer for frankincense ; not £/*£ ALTAR o/ incense, which had no more need to be mentioned than the altar of whole burnt-offering, which is not mentioned. But the censer alone, along with the ark of the covenant, is named in this verse, because it was the principal part of the furniture which the high priest used on the day of expiation ; and although it was on that day alone that he both carried in and again carried out the censer, yet the participle g^outfa, having, is consonant with the fact.2 Further, this is put first, because a description of the ark follows at greater length. — sv fi, in which) namely, xi(3ur&, the ark; for to it also is to be referred alrrtc, over it, ver. 5. — cra,avos '/JP^G^ &%ov<ta TO ^dwa, the golden pot that had manna) pdwa, manna, has the article, not <frd{Avo$, the pot ; for the thing contained was of more importance than the golden vessel which contained it. Ex. xvi. 33,rin^ ro¥J¥ ; LXX. ffrupvov yjutow eva. Some suspect that this pot and rod of Aaron, two most remarkable memorials, which were furnished with a perpetual miracle, had been taken out of the ark before the building of the temple : others, that they were put in not until afterwards, because in 1 Kings viii. 9 mention is only made of the tables laid up in the ark. But in the same passage it is distinctly affirmed, that Solomon acted according to the example of Moses ; and the apostle refers to the times of Moses, ver. G, at the beginning ; ch. viii. 5 : cornp. ch. xiii. 11, where there is no mention made of the city, as here none of the temple. What then shall we say ? The tables were alone in the ark itself, but the pot and the rod nnyn ^?h, before the testimony, and therefore before the ark, Ex. xvi. 34 ; Num. xvii. 25, in the Ilebr., very
1 Lachm. reads oi-/ia, ay/wi-, with AD(A) corrected /.' B reads TX &yta, ; Vulg. *' sancta ;' Tisch. and Elzev. Rec. Text, eiyia, : Lut Stephens' Kec. Tex4 **//*.— ED.
2 The Holy of Holies continually had the censer ; though it was only on the day of atonement that the high priest used it. — ED.