Ver. 3. μετὰ δὲ τὸ δεύτερον
328
c Exod. χνι. λεγομένη ἅγια ἁγίων, 4. “χρυσοῦν ἔχουσα θυμιατήριον, καὶ τὴν
33, et xxv.
10, 21, αἱ κιβωτὸν τῆς διαθήκης περικεκαλυμμένην πάντοθεν χρυσίῳ, ἐν ἡ
XXVi. 33,
εἰ xxxiv. στάμνος χρυσῆ ἔχουσα τὸ μάννα, καὶ ἣ ῥάβδος ᾿Ααρὼν ἡ βλαστή-
29; Num. XV1i. 10; 1 Reg. viii. 9; 2 Par. ν. 1Ο.
καταπέτασμα. ‘And after the second veil the tent which is called ‘ Holy of Holies,’”? not, as Westcott, ‘‘a tent [was prepared] which is called,” for “ when attributives are placed after with the article, the article before the substantive is dropped”? (Buttmann, p. 92). The participle with the article as usual takes the place of a relative clause. μετὰ in a local sense [non-classical, Blass, p. 133], which is here closely akin to the tem- poral = after the entrant has passed the second veil. The second veil separated the Holy place from the Holy of Holies, and as being the significant veil was sometimes spoken of without δεύτερον, simply as τὸ καταπέτασμα, see chap. vi. 19; Mat. xxvii. 51, etc. Instructions for making and hanging it are given in Exod. XXV1. 31535: and in ver. 36 the outer veil is described. The outer veil is sometimes called καταπέτασμα but more commonly ἐπίσπαστρον, Exod. xxvi. 36, xxxv. 15 etc. The inner tent was called the ἅγια
ἁγίων, translating Ow? wap which
in Hebrew idiom is equivalent to a super- lative.
Ver. 4. χρυσοῦν ἔχουσα θυμ- ιατήριον.. - . The inner tent is char- acterised by its furnishings, a golden altar of incense and the ark of the coven- ant. θυμιατήριον is rendered both in A.V. and R.V. by “censer”’ following the Vulgate, ‘‘aureum habens thuribu- lum ;” Grotius ‘‘ @up,: hic non est mensa, sed impositum mensae batillum;’’ and others. In doing so the usage of the LXX is followed, for in 2 Chron. xxvi. 10, Ezek. vili. 11, 4 Mac. vii. 11—the only instances of its occurrence—it renders