44Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
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And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-50)Two things we have in these verses:— I. Stephen upbraids them with the idolatry of their fathers, which God gave them up to, as a punishment for their early forsaking him in worshipping the golden calf; and this was the saddest punishment of all for that sin, as it was of the idolatry of the Gentile world that God gave them up to a reprobate mind . When Israel was joined to idols , joined to the g…
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