HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers.1-38.-..daron in his priesthood the type of Jeilm. I. IN ms APPOINTMENT (ver. 1). 1. He is chosen of God (Heh. v. 4), and therefore our accepted intercessor. 2. He is taken from among his brethren; "from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me." The priest who ministers before God for us must go up with a brother's heart and with experience of human infirmity (Heb. iv. 16). II. IN ms ARRAY. The holy garments were "for glory and for beauty," the symbol of the perfect humanity of Jesus;" holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners." III. IN ms SYMPATHY. 1. The names of the tribes were engraved upon and identified with the choicest jewels. Christ not only remembers us; we are loved, honoured, treasured by him. 2. The name of each tribe was engraved upon a separate, !l.nd different kind of jewel. We are not gr~sped i:Jy our high priest in a mass ; we a.re individually known, loved, cared for. 3. The names were borne upon Aaron's heart whenever he went into the holy place (ver. 29), for a memorial before the Lord con- tinually. We are held in perpetual remembrance before God. IV. IN ms VICARIOUSNESS. 1. That remembrance was burden-bearing; he went in for them, his heart was bowed before God in the consciousness of their sin and need. For us in our sin and need Christ's entreaties ascend day and night. 2. In his zeal for holiness (vers. 36-38). Christ, sin's sacrifice, shall also be sin's destruction.-U.
EXPOSITION. Vera. 31-35.-THE ROBE OF THE EPHOD, Ver. 32.-An hole in the top of it. A mere Underneath the cphod and brenst-plate the circular hole for the head to go through, un- high priest wos to weo.r a robe, or frock, accompanied by a slit or longitudinal opening. wholly of blue. Thls robe wos to h.e.ve a hole In the midst of it. Midway between the two arm-holes. A binding of woven work round for the head at the top, e.nd WllS to be woven about the hole of it. This would strengthen withont seem (eh. xxxix. 22). It wo.s put on the edge of the opening, a.nd prevent it from over the head, like a habergeon or coat of mail, tearing or fraying. The binding was probably and probably reached below the knee. Jose- sewn on after the frock was woven. As it were the hole of an habergeon. Linen corselets or phus says that it had no sleeves babergeons have beeu found in Egypt. They Ver. 31.-All of blue. This plainness and were sometimes covercJ. with metul sca.lcs, o.n,l Wliformity offered a strong contrast to the were of the mo.ke hero indicated. ( See t.he variegated hues of the breast-plate and ephod, author's Histary of Egypt, vol. i. p. H6.) Thu and threw those portions of the attire into word here used for " habergeon " ( tak/iii.ru/i) is greater prominence. If the blue used was Egyptian. indigo, the effect of the contrust must have Ver. 3..'\.-Upon the hem of it. 1..itcr,,llv bcl'n hcip-htened " at its edge " Pomegranates TllSsds iu r.he 1!::\:.Ol.)Utl-11. 0 THE ROOK OF i,~xonus. [on, xxvm. 31-3G.
~hapc ol pomegranate&, of three coloW'R, eccm t.hey worn a call to vigilance and attention. 1,, he intended. An ornament o{ the kind is This l&et view is supported by the words of common in Assyria, but not in Egypt. Bella verse 85-it ■h&ll be upon Aaron to m!nilter of gold between them. The bell is not often ud. hill ■ound. ■hall be heard, or " that i~ found in Egypt, and seems certaialy not to sound may be heard." The bells were a means he Ye been in common use there. It. w&e, how- of uniting priest and people in one common .,,-er. often bung round the necks of horses in service-they enabled tne people to enter into Ass:Till (Ancient NaM~hia, vol. ii. pp. 8, 14, and second what the priest w&e doing for them, 15, 2i), and is so simple an objoot that ite and so t.o render his mediation effl.cacioUB- invention w,u; prob&b1y very early. The they made the people's worship in the court of Allsyria.n bells a.re shaped &lmost exactly like the sanctuary .a "reasonable service." And our own. 86 &re the clllBBical ones. hence the threat, which certainly does not Vers. 84, 85.-A gold.en bell ud. a pome- extend to all the priestly ga.rmente, implied in granate. Hebrew tradition gives & most nn- the words, "that he die not." If the high certe.in BOnnd with respect to the number of priest neglooted to wear the robe with the the bells. According to BOme, they were 12 bells, he separated himself off from the people ; only ; &CCOrding to othors, 72 ; a.ooording t.o & made himself their substitute and not their third school, 865 I Equally conflicting are monthpiooe; reduced their worship to & drear the explanatiom given o{ their symbolism-(1) formality ; deprived it of all heartiness and life that they typified the proclamation and ex- and vigour. For thus abUBing hie office, he pounding of the law by the high-priest-(2) wonld deeerve death, especially as he conld not that they were a masical offering of pra.is&--(S) do it unwittingly, for hie ears wonld tell him th&t they marked kingly dignity, since Oriental whether he was wearing the bells or not kingi; liOlll.etimes wore bells-tmd ( t) that 1