Exodus 25:38
The snuffers also and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Emunctoria quoque, et ubi quæ emuncta sunt extinguantur, fiant de auro purissimo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὸν ἐπαρυστῆρα αὐτῆς καὶ τὰ ὑποθέματα αὐτῆς ἐκ χρυσίου καθαροῦ ποιήσεις·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר
Haydock's commentary
Put out, with the oil, &c. Nothing was to be treated with disrespect that had been dedicated to God's service. (Haydock)
Alexander adorned the temple of Apollo with a grand candlestick, resembling a tree laden with fruit; (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxxiv. 3,) and Dionysius the younger made a present of one to the prytaneum of Athens, which had 365 lamps upon it. They stood on the ground, and burnt oil, being the more necessary, as the ancient temples had generally no windows. The Egyptians, according to St. Clement of Alexandria (strom. 1,) were the first who introduced them into their temples. (Calmet)
Solomon set up ten candlesticks, five on the north, and five on the south of the holy place, 3 Kings vii. 49.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.