Verses 22-38 - Directions are here given for making the holy anointingoil, and the incense to be used in the service of the tabernacle. To show the excellency of holiness, there was this spiced oil in the tabernacle which was grateful to the sight and to the smell. Christ's name is a ointment poured forth, So 1:3, and the good name of Christians is lik precious ointment, Ec 7:1. The incenseburned upon the golden altar wa prepared of sweet spices. When it was used, it was to be beaten very small; thus it pleased the Lord to bruise the Redeemer, when he offere himself for a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savour. The like should no be made for any common use. Thus God would keep in the people's mindreverence for his own services, and teach us not to profane or abus any thing whereby God makes himself known. It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, and to make sport with his word an ordinances. It is most dangerous and fatal to use professions of the gospel of Christ to forward wordly interests __________________________________________________________________
