Exo 25:8 - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Exo 25:8:

8. Then have them make a sanctuary for me—An holy place to dwell in, and so called from his dwelling in it, as follows:

A sanctuary—A place of public and solemn worship; and I will dwell among them. Not by my essence, which is everywhere; but by my grace and glorious operations.

A sanctuary . . . , and I will dwell among them— In one sense the tabernacle was to be a palace, the royal residence of the King of Israel, in which He was to dwell among His people, receive their petitions, and issue His responses. But it was also to be a place of worship, in which Elohim was to record His name and to enshrine the mystic symbols of His presence.

And I will dwell among them—In the midst of them, where the tabernacle was always placed; and there he dwelt as their King and their Elohim, to whom they might have recourse on all occasions, and whom they should serve and worship; this sanctuary was to be made of many of the materials before mentioned by the Israelites, whom Moses should employ, and to whom he should give directions for the making it, according to the pattern showed him: and so the Jewish writers interpret "make . . . me", or "to me", i.e. of mine, of mine holy things, things sanctified and separated to his use; and they bring this passage to prove that the workmen in the temple were to be paid only out of the holy things, or money given for the repair of it: this was a type of the human nature of the Messiah, the true sanctuary and tabernacle set up by Elohim not by man, and in which the fulness of Elohim dwells bodily; and of the community of Elohim, the temple of the living Elohim, among whom he walks, and with whom he dwells (2Co 6:16; Heb 8:2).

Gill, John. "Commentary on Exodus 25:8." "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible." . 1999.

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary

John Wesley's Notes on the Bible

Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Temurah, c. 7. sect. 1.

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