. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . lobe or knop, and above that aflower. The shaft was similarly ornamented;besides which, under each pair of branches,was a globe or knop. The height of the can-dlestick is said to have been about five feet,and the distance between the two exteriorlamps three and a half feet. It stood on thesouth side of the holy place opposite to the ta-ble of shew-bread. Pure olive-oil was burnedin the lamps ; and it is a question whe
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . lobe or knop, and above that aflower. The shaft was similarly ornamented;besides which, under each pair of branches,was a globe or knop. The height of the can-dlestick is said to have been about five feet,and the distance between the two exteriorlamps three and a half feet. It stood on thesouth side of the holy place opposite to the ta-ble of shew-bread. Pure olive-oil was burnedin the lamps ; and it is a question whetherthe lights were ever extinguished. The prob-ability is that they were, and that the burn-ing always meant always at the appoint-ed In Solomons temple were ten candlesticks,five put on the right, five on the left of theholy These seem to have been in ad-dition to the ancient candlestick made by Mo-ses : they were all taken away to the second temple there was but one, andbut one was carried away and exhibited in thetriumphal procession of Titus. It is repre-sented in an existing bass-relief on the Archof Titus in Rome. It is said to have been. The Golden Candlestick as it now appears in theArch of Titus. taken to Carthage by Genseric, 455, tohave been recovered by Belisarius, and ulti-mately placed in the Christian Church ofJerusalem, 533. Its subsequent fate isunknown. Symbolically, a candlestick sig-nifies a [Exod. xxv., 31-40 ; xxvi.,35; xxvii.,20; xxxvii., 17-24 ; xl.,24.] Canon. This word originally signified ameasuring rule. It has come to be used, in ageneral sense, for certain ecclesiastical stand-ards. Thus, the canon of Scripture (q. v.) isthe standard by which the place and authori-ty of any book claiming to be sacred and in-spired is to be measured, or, regarded as acollection of the inspired books, is itself thestandard of faith and morals. Of the various 1 Exod. xxvii., 20, 21; xxx., T, 8; Lev. xxiv., 2-4; 1Sam. iii
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