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THE SANCTUARY AGAIN

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 20, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 9.

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THE SANCTUARY AGAIN.

By James White

LAST week we promised more on the two vails this week. Says Paul, "And after the second vail; the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all." Heb. ix, 3. Certainly, Paul understood that there were two vails, and that the second was between the holy place, and the most holy. The first is called a "hanging for the door of the tent." Ex. xxvi, 36. "Hanging for the tabernacle door." Chap. xxxvi, 37. "Hanging at the door of the tabernacle," Chap. xl, 28.
Paul regarded this as the first vail, and so may we. When we compare these two vails we find them very nearly alike.

FIRST VAIL.

Ex. xxvi, 36, 37. "And thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them."
Chap. xxxvi, 37, 38. "And he made a hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; and the five pillars of it with their hooks; and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass."

SECOND VAIL.

Ex. xxvi, 31-33. "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubim shall it be made. And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy."
Chap. xxxvi, 35, 36. "And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim made he it of cunning work. And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold: and he cast for them four sockets of silver."
The two vails were made of the same material, same colors, and in the same style. There was this difference; there were five pillars at the first vail, and four at the second. And the sockets of the first were of brass, while those of the second were of silver. J. W.