all.* 5. These chambers all around. The " many mansions" are here. 6. These ten candlesticks, ten lavers, ten show-bread tables, ten tables for the slain sacrifices. All these intimate that in those days of millennial glory, much that is new shall be discovered, tenfold light will be cast on many a truth. Yet still, the present truths are the elements of those discoveries to be made then. Truth revealed now shall then be opened more fully on the view; grace given now shall then be given in far, far richer measure. Oh! blessed times! and the Greater than Solomon" in the midst, "telling plainly of the Father" (John xvi. 25), and declaring to his redeemed, "Thou art all fair; there is no spot in thee. Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse." Who shall be able to stand under the weight of such bliss? The Queen of Sheba represents some of the overwhelming effects; not one remnant of self-complacency left, not one thought of self at all, except in the form of shame and abasement.

"Come quickly, Lord Jesus." Prepare these eyes for seeing the King in his beauty; these ears for hearing the sound of blessed voices and golden harps; these feet for the golden streets, these hands for the palms of victory,

* We fully agree with those who consider the cherubim everywhere to be symbols of the redeemed Church. They stand on the ark, i. e., Christ; their feet touching the blood sprinkled; while the glory of God is over them, and they see it reflected in the golden mercy-seat, as they bend under the glory. See Candlish on Genesis; and Fairbairn's Typology. So again; there were cherubim on the veil (Exod. xxvi. 31; 2 Chron. iii. 14); and the veil represented Christ's body (Heb. x. 20), to typify, "He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." And when the veil was rent, the cherubim were rent, thereby showing that when Christ died, all he stood for also died (2 Cor. v. 14). They were "crucified with Christ."

this brow (often wet with the sweat of the curse) for the crown of righteousness; and above all, this heart for loving thee who lovedst me and gavest thyself for me! In that day, "the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly," while with all saints they ever speak of the King, on whom they gaze, and into whose image they are changed. And only then shall every faculty find itself satisfied always, and yet ever bewildered in the blessed attempt to understand the "breadth and length, and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge." Hallelujah!

Israel's Cemporal Blessings,

IN CONTRAST TO THE CURSE.

BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU."-Matt. vi. 33.

CHAPTER XXVI.

RICH promises of temporal blessing to Israel form the solemn conclusion to the full declaration made throughout this book of their duty and privileges in things spiritual. He that is so gracious in blessing the soul is not sparing in his kindness to the body. And while all here is spoken nationally, yet do we not recognize Him who said these things at the foot of Sinai, speaking in the same kind tone on the mountain in Galilee, when to every disciple he promises, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you?" Oh! Israel, our Redeemer is your Jehovah! The same heart yearns, the same lips move, at Sinai, and in Galilee. Oh! that thou hadst hearkened to his commandments! "then had thy peace been as a river"—like thine own river Jordan, ever flowing, often overflowing" and thy righteousness like the waves of the sea." Like thy great Western Sea with all its waves,

able to cover over all thy sins, such would have been the righteousness that he would have given thee. (Isa. xlviii. 18.) And then all other things would have followed. "Thy seed had been as the sand"-numerous as the countless sands of that wide Mediterranean Sea-" and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof—filling thy happy land; while "thy name should not have been cut off, nor destroyed from before him." Oh! Israel, return, return! He earnestly remembers thee still.

Vers. 1, 2. "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the Lord your God. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.”

The Lord alone must be worshipped (ver. 1), and He must be worshipped as he requires (ver. 2). The Lord seeks our whole heart, our unaverted eye, our entire soul. "No idols;" other objects that sit on the throne of our heart, whether of silver and gold, or of flesh and blood, or of earth's common objects, like houses and lands, riches and honor, all these are, "things of naught"utterly despicable in his view. "Graven images," and "standing images," (or pillars like obelisks,) and "images of stone," (or "stones of imagery," such as Ezekiel viii. 8, describes)-all these are wholly abominable to the Lord. Set up no rival, none that approaches near; not even father or mother, wife or child. And in order to cherish this state of soul, his Sabbaths must be kept and his sanctuary reverenced; the sinner must employ himself, amid holy scenes and at holy times, in bathing his soul in the love of God. If any one neglects the time set apart by God for this end-"the Sabbath"-how can such a one ever expect to feel steeped in the holy awe

and love that is due to the Lord? When a man goes to the region of the Alps, he requires time to see the relative magnitude of objects; he does not at one glance see their immense height and sublime elevation. It is often days ere he arrive at a proper estimate, because he is now in a new and unwonted region. So it is with Divine realities; you must spend time, continuously and uninter ruptedly, in order to have your soul truly affected. In like manner, also, the sanctuary must be frequented. It is the Lord's ordinance. Would you have refrained from taking the fruit of the forbidden tree, as a test of obedience, who will not reverence the sanctuary? Where is your childlike submission of will? Nay, where is your love to your Father, if you go not to the spot where he meets with his own so specially?

All declension and decay may be said to be begun wherever we see these two ordinances despised-the Sabbath and the sanctuary. They are the outward fence around the inward love commanded by ver. 1.

THE BLESSING HELD OUT.

Vers. 3, 4, 5, 6. "If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your threshing shall reach into the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land."

The Lord made Israel "Jeshurun," the prosperous one, blessing him with all temporal things whenever Israel sought the spiritual. It was a scene like the unfallen age.*

* Such as Hesiod (Epya к. hμɛp. 115) fancies to have been in the golden