. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . moreshafts, and then on the shaft upward were threegolden scollop-cups, a knop, and a flower: so that the heads of the branches stood an equal height(Works, ii. 399, ed. Pitman). The whole weightof the candlestick was 100 minse = about 229 or 188A- lbs. avoirdupois (Weights and Meas-ures) ; its height was, according to the Rabbis, fivefeet, and the breadth, or distance between the exte-rior branches, three and a half feet. It has beencalculated to have been worth £5,076 = about$23,o0, exclusive of workmanship. Generally itwas a type of preac
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . moreshafts, and then on the shaft upward were threegolden scollop-cups, a knop, and a flower: so that the heads of the branches stood an equal height(Works, ii. 399, ed. Pitman). The whole weightof the candlestick was 100 minse = about 229 or 188A- lbs. avoirdupois (Weights and Meas-ures) ; its height was, according to the Rabbis, fivefeet, and the breadth, or distance between the exte-rior branches, three and a half feet. It has beencalculated to have been worth £5,076 = about$23,o0, exclusive of workmanship. Generally itwas a type of preaching or of the light of thelaw (Lightfoot, 1. c). Similarly candlesticks aremade types of the Spirit, of the Church, of witnesses,&c. (compare Zech. iv.; Rev. ii. 5, xi. 4, &c). Thecandlestick was placed on the S. side of the firstapartment of the tabernacle, opposite the table ofshewbread (Ex. xxv. 37), and was lighted everyevening and dressed every morning (Ex. xxvii. 20,21, xxx. 8 ; compare 1 Sam. iii. 3). Each lamp was. supplied with cotton, and half a log of the purestolive-oil (about two wine-glasses), which was suf-fieient to keep them burning during a long carried about, the candlestick was coveredwith a cloth of blue, and put with its appendages inbadger-skin bags, which were supported on a bar(Num. iv. 9). In Solomons Temple, instead of thiscandlestick, there were ten golden candlesticks simi-larly embossed, five on the right and five on the left(1 K. vii. 49 ; 2 Chr. iv. 7). They were taken toBabylon (Jer. Hi. 19). In the Temple of Zerubbabelthere was again a single candlestick (1 Mc. i. 21, ). The description given of it by Josephus agreesonly tolerably with the sculpture on the Arch ofTitus; but he hints that it was not identical withthe one used in the Temple. The candlestick repre-sented on the arch of Titus as home in his triumph,a. d. 70, was probably taken from Rome to Carthage,a. d. 455, by Genseric, thence carried to Constantino-ple, and the
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