Wesley Corpus

And the length of each, twenty - five thousand, that is twelve miles and half square. Let it suffice - Be content, aim not at more. Of one measure - One shall contain as much as the other, the ephah shall contain as many gallons of dry, as the bath of liquid things. An homer - Thirty bushels. So the ephah will be three bushels in dry things, and the bath eight gallons in liquid things. Twenty gerahs - A gerah was one penny half - penny, the shekel then was two shillings and six - pence, twenty shekels was two pounds ten shillings, fifteen shekels was one pound seventeen shillings and six - pence, and twenty five was three pound two shillings and six - pence. Maneh - It seems there was the small, the middle, and the great Maneh. Offer - In the daily service, the morning and evening sacrifice. Bath - Which contained about twenty - four gallons. The cor - Or homer; these were two names of the same measure. With the prince - By a common purse of prince and people. Thou shalt take - Procure, this the prince must do. For every one that erreth - For all the errors of all the house of Israel, through ignorance. For him that is simple - That is half - witted, or a fool. Reconcile - Cleanse, as ver.18, which legally was defiled by those errors done in the city, or courts of the house, whither these persons might come. In the first month - Nisan, which is part of March, and part of April with us. Upon that day - Upon the fourteenth day, on which the passover was slain. An hin - This was about one gallon and three quarters of a pint. In the seventh month - According to their ecclesiastical account, which is Tisri, and answers to part of our August and September. In the fifteenth day - On that day the feast of tabernacles began, and continued seven days. He - The prince. In the feast of the seven days - Hence we also may learn the necessity of frequently repeating the same religious exercises. Indeed the sacrifice of atonement was offered once for all. But the sacrifice of acknowledgement, that of a broken heart, that of a thankful heart, must be offered every day.