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NASB | Exodus 25:3 "This is the contribution which you are to raise from them: gold, silver and bronze, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 25:3 "This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, |
Subject: Colors - Tabernacle/High Priest |
Bible Note: Hi Doc, I understand that you have to keep a careful watch but may I gently suggest that you are exaggerating the situation slightly? :-))) I hardly 'interpreted the majority of symbol'. That white linen represents the imputed righteousness (purity) of the saints we know from Revelation 7.14. In 19.8 it represents the righteousnesses of the saints. We can also compare how the pure angels appeared in white. So I think that that is justification enough to see the white as indicating purity and righteousness. All were fit to enter Heaven. Clearly the white linen therefore 'represented' the priests as 'fitted' to enter the Holy Place. That gold in one way or another represents the divine kingship we know from the fact of the deterioration from gold, through silver to bronze in The Tabernacle. It can hardly be seen as indicating anything else unless we ignore all significance of the symbols. The nearer things came to God the more they contained gold. Especially as the mercy seat, the divine throne as many consider it to be, is of gold. Thus the gold told them that they were approaching God These two interpretations I consider to be cast iron (if gold can be cast iron :-)))) ) I certainly do not see them as speculation. With regard to the two colours I put a question mark after them to indicate that the possible interpretations were speculative. That hardly 'implies authority'. But they were clearly intended to indicate something, even if only glory and beauty. Of course had I gone into greater detail your criticism might have been valid, and as a general warning is justified. But I do not consider that I went outside the bounds of sola Scriptura at all. However thank you for your thought In Him. |