mouth." 1 John iii. 5: "In him is no sin." 129 Acts x. 38: "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power." 130 Matt. v. 14-16: "Ye are the light of the world. . . . Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Phil. ii. 15: "Ye shine as lights in the world." 131 Rev. i. 12, 13, 20: "I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." See also Zech. iv. 132 Compare Lam. iv. 1, 2. 133 Luke xii. 35: "Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning." 134 By the parable of the ten virgins. Matt. xxv. THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD. 135 Exodus xxv. 23-30: "Thou shalt make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. .. And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them." 136 Lev. xxiv. 5-9: "Thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually. ... And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place." 137 1 Sam. xxi. 1-6: "Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest (when he was fleeing from Saul). . . . So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away." 138 Matt. xii. 1-7: When the Pharisees found fault with the disciples for plucking the ears of corn on the sabbath, Jesus said unto them: "Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, ye had but only for the priests? But if 66 139 John vi. 35: "I am the bread of life." 140 Ps. xcii. 12: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Prov. iv. 18: "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Isa. xliv. 4: They shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water-courses. Hosea xiv. 5: "He shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon." Mark iv. 28: "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Eph. iv. 14, 15: "That we henceforth be no more children; . . . but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ." 1 John ii. 12-14: "Little children-young men— fathers." 141 Ps. cxxxii. 15: "I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread." Ps. xxiii. 5: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." 1 Peter ii. 2: "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." 142 Matt. v. 6: "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Luke i. 53: "He hath filled the hungry with good things." THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 143 The golden altar, Exod. xxx. 26. 144 See Exod. xxx. 1-6. 145 See Exod. xxx. 7, 8. 146 Only the seed of Aaron. See Numb. xvi. 40; 2 Chron. xxvi. 18. 147 King Uzziah, 2 Chron. xxvi. 16-21: "He transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. . . . Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar. And Uzziah the king was a leper ... unto the day of his death." 148 Read Exod. xxx. 34-36. 149 Read also verses 37, 38. 150 Ps. cxli. 2: "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense." Mal. i. 11: "In every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering." 151 1 Pet. ii. 5: "Acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." John xvi. 23: "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you." 152 Rev. viii. 3: Another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne." 153 1 Tim. ii. 5: "There is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." John xiv. 6: "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me." 154 Luke xxii. 31, 32: "The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not." Luke xxiii. 34: "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." 155 John xi. 41, 42: "Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me LEPROSY AND ITS CLEANSING. 156 See the case of Miriam, Numb. xii. 10; Gehazi, 2 Kings v. 27; Uzziah, 2 Chron. xxvi. 19-21. 157 It is a figure of the moral pollution of men's minds by sin, which is the leprosy of the soul, defiling to the conscience, and from which Christ alone can cleanse us; for herein the power of his grace infinitely transcends that of the legal priesthood. The priest could only convict the leper, but Christ can cure the sinner; he will take away sin. "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean;" which |