The tabernacle and its priests and services : described and considered in relation to Christ and the Church .. . d division bearing upthe second pair of branches; the third knop would bethe capital of the third division bearing up the thirdpair of branches; and the fourth knop the capital at thetop of the shaft, and, like those at the end of eachbranch, so formed, as already mentioned, as to hold alamp—the shaft or stem being thus a kind of compoundpillar. Some, however, maintain that each branch hadthree knops, and, in favour of this view, quote 34: And in the candlestick (shaft) sh
The tabernacle and its priests and services : described and considered in relation to Christ and the Church .. . d division bearing upthe second pair of branches; the third knop would bethe capital of the third division bearing up the thirdpair of branches; and the fourth knop the capital at thetop of the shaft, and, like those at the end of eachbranch, so formed, as already mentioned, as to hold alamp—the shaft or stem being thus a kind of compoundpillar. Some, however, maintain that each branch hadthree knops, and, in favour of this view, quote 34: And in the candlestick (shaft) shall be fourbowls, made like unto almonds, with their knops andtheir flowers. From this they seek to show, that thoughone knop only is mentioned in connection with thebranches, it is to be understood, from the above passage,that all the bowls had knops and flowers, but the twotheirs should be its—the pronoun being singularin the Hebrew. In the corresponding passage in 20 {Eng. ver), the pronoun, as it ought to be, isin the singular, so that its knops and its flowers refer 138 THE THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK. 139 to the shaft, and not to the bowls; and, consequently,the above passages, while they show that the shaft orstem had more knops than one, by no means prove thatthe branches had more than one each. We have no hint to guide us as to the kind of flowerswhich were imitated in the decorations. As they wereevidently connected with the knops, and placed besidethem, they were the same in number, viz., one for eacharm, and four for the stem. On the Arch of Titus at Eome are represented thespoils taken from Jerusalem, amongst which appear thetable of shewbread and the golden candlestick; but itshould be borne in mind, that these were not those ofthe Tabernacle, though they may have resembled them,but of the Herodian Temple. Figures of birds and othercreatures appear on the base of the candlestick, but thisis accounted for on the supposition that the Eomansr
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