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<div2 id="Num.ix" n="ix" next="Num.x" prev="Num.viii" progress="67.10%" title="Chapter VIII">
<h2 id="Num.ix-p0.1">N U M B E R S</h2>
<h3 id="Num.ix-p0.2">CHAP. VIII.</h3>
<p class="intro" id="Num.ix-p1">This chapter is concerning the lamps or lights of
the sanctuary. I. The burning lamps in the candlestick, which the
priests were charged to tend, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.1-Num.8.4" parsed="|Num|8|1|8|4" passage="Nu 8:1-4">ver.
1-4</scripRef>. II. The living lamps (if I may so call them), The
Levites, who as ministers were burning and shining lights. The
ordination of the priests we had an account of, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.8.1-Lev.8.36" parsed="|Lev|8|1|8|36" passage="Le 8:1-36">Lev. viii</scripRef>. Here we have an account of the
ordination of the Levites, the inferior clergy. 1. How they were
purified, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.5-Num.8.8" parsed="|Num|8|5|8|8" passage="Nu 8:5-8">ver. 5-8</scripRef>. 2. How
they were parted with by the people, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.4" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.9-Num.8.10" parsed="|Num|8|9|8|10" passage="Nu 8:9-10">ver. 9, 10</scripRef>. 3. How they were presented to
God in lieu of the firstborn, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.5" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.11-Num.8.18" parsed="|Num|8|11|8|18" passage="Nu 8:11-18">ver.
11-18</scripRef>. 4. How they were consigned to Aaron and his sons,
to be ministers to them, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.6" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.19" parsed="|Num|8|19|0|0" passage="Nu 8:19">ver.
19</scripRef>. 5. How all these orders were duly executed,
<scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.7" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.20-Num.8.22" parsed="|Num|8|20|8|22" passage="Nu 8:20-22">ver. 20-22</scripRef>. And, lastly,
the age appointed for their ministration, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p1.8" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.23-Num.8.26" parsed="|Num|8|23|8|26" passage="Nu 8:23-26">ver. 23</scripRef>, &amp;c.</p>
<scripCom id="Num.ix-p1.9" osisRef="Bible:Num.8" parsed="|Num|8|0|0|0" passage="Nu 8" type="Commentary"/>
<scripCom id="Num.ix-p1.10" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.1-Num.8.4" parsed="|Num|8|1|8|4" passage="Nu 8:1-4" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Num.8.1-Num.8.4">
<h4 id="Num.ix-p1.11">The Lights of the Sanctuary. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p1.12">b. c.</span> 1490.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Num.ix-p2">1 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p2.1">Lord</span>
spake unto Moses, saying,   2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto
him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light
over against the candlestick.   3 And Aaron did so; he lighted
the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p2.2">Lord</span> commanded Moses.   4 And this work of
the candlestick <i>was of</i> beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof,
unto the flowers thereof, <i>was</i> beaten work: according unto
the pattern which the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p2.3">Lord</span> had
showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p3">Directions were given long before this for
the making of the golden candlestick (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.1" osisRef="Bible:Exod.25.31" parsed="|Exod|25|31|0|0" passage="Ex 25:31">Exod. xxv. 31</scripRef>), and it was made according to
the pattern shown to Moses in the mount, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:Exod.38.17" parsed="|Exod|38|17|0|0" passage="Ex 38:17">Exod. xxxviii. 17</scripRef>. But now it was that the
lamps were first ordered to be lighted, when other things began to
be used. Observe, 1. Who must light the lamps; Aaron himself, he
<i>lighted the lamps,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.3" parsed="|Num|8|3|0|0" passage="Nu 8:3"><i>v.</i>
3</scripRef>. As the people's representative to God, he thus did
the office of a servant in God's house, lighting his Master's
candle; as the representative of God to the people, he thus gave
them the intimations of God's will and favour, thus expressed
(<scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.4" osisRef="Bible:Ps.18.28" parsed="|Ps|18|28|0|0" passage="Ps 18:28">Ps. xviii. 28</scripRef>), <i>Thou
wilt light my candle;</i> and thus Aaron himself was now lately
directed to bless the people, <i>The Lord make his face to shine
upon thee,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.5" osisRef="Bible:Num.6.25" parsed="|Num|6|25|0|0" passage="Nu 6:25"><i>ch.</i> vi.
25</scripRef>. The commandment is a <i>lamp,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.6" osisRef="Bible:Prov.6.23" parsed="|Prov|6|23|0|0" passage="Pr 6:23">Prov. vi. 23</scripRef>. The scripture is <i>a light
shining in a dark place,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.7" osisRef="Bible:2Pet.1.19" parsed="|2Pet|1|19|0|0" passage="2Pe 1:19">2 Pet. i.
19</scripRef>. And a dark place indeed even the church would be
without it, as the tabernacle (which had no window in it) without
the lamps. Now the work of ministers is to light these lamps, by
expounding and applying the word of God. The priest lighted the
middle lamp from the fire of the altar, and the rest of the lamps
he lighted one from another, which (says Mr. Ainsworth) signifies
that the fountain of all light and knowledge is in Christ, who has
the <i>seven spirits of God</i> figured by the <i>seven lamps of
fire</i> (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.8" osisRef="Bible:Rev.4.5" parsed="|Rev|4|5|0|0" passage="Re 4:5">Rev. iv. 5</scripRef>), but
that in the expounding of scripture one passage must borrow light
from another. He also supposes that, <i>seven</i> being a number of
perfection, by the seven branches of the candlestick is shown the
full perfection of the scriptures, which are able to make us wise
to salvation. 2. To what end the lamps were lighted, that they
might give light <i>over against the candlestick,</i> that is, to
that part of the tabernacle where the table stood, with the
show-bread upon it, over against the candlestick. They were not
lighted like tapers in an urn, to burn to themselves, but to give
light to the other side of the tabernacle, for therefore candles
are lighted, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p3.9" osisRef="Bible:Matt.5.15" parsed="|Matt|5|15|0|0" passage="Mt 5:15">Matt. v. 15</scripRef>.
Note, The lights of the world, the lights of the church, must shine
as lights. Therefore we have light, that we may give light.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Num.ix-p3.10" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.5-Num.8.26" parsed="|Num|8|5|8|26" passage="Nu 8:5-26" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Num.8.5-Num.8.26">
<h4 id="Num.ix-p3.11">The Consecration of the
Levites. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p3.12">b. c.</span> 1490.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Num.ix-p4">5 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.1">Lord</span>
spake unto Moses, saying,   6 Take the Levites from among the
children of Israel, and cleanse them.   7 And thus shalt thou
do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon
them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their
clothes, and <i>so</i> make themselves clean.   8 Then let
them take a young bullock with his meat offering, <i>even</i> fine
flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take
for a sin offering.   9 And thou shalt bring the Levites
before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather
the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:   10
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.2">Lord</span>: and the children of Israel shall put their
hands upon the Levites:   11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites
before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.3">Lord</span> <i>for</i> an
offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the
service of the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.4">Lord</span>.   12 And
the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks:
and thou shalt offer the one <i>for</i> a sin offering, and the
other <i>for</i> a burnt offering, unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.5">Lord</span>, to make an atonement for the Levites.
  13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before
his sons, and offer them <i>for</i> an offering unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.6">Lord</span>.   14 Thus shalt thou separate
the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites
shall be mine.   15 And after that shall the Levites go in to
do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou
shalt cleanse them, and offer them <i>for</i> an offering.  
16 For they <i>are</i> wholly given unto me from among the children
of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, <i>even instead
of</i> the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken
them unto me.   17 For all the firstborn of the children of
Israel <i>are</i> mine, <i>both</i> man and beast: on the day that
I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for
myself.   18 And I have taken the Levites for all the
firstborn of the children of Israel.   19 And I have given the
Levites <i>as</i> a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the
children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in
the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for
the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children
of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the
sanctuary.   20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all
that the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.7">Lord</span> commanded Moses
concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
  21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their
clothes; and Aaron offered them <i>as</i> an offering before the
<span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.8">Lord</span>; and Aaron made an atonement
for them to cleanse them.   22 And after that went the Levites
in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before
Aaron, and before his sons: as the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.9">Lord</span> had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so did they unto them.   23 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Num.ix-p4.10">Lord</span> spake unto Moses, saying,   24 This
<i>is it</i> that <i>belongeth</i> unto the Levites: from twenty
and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation:   25 And from
the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service
<i>thereof,</i> and shall serve no more:   26 But shall
minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation,
to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do
unto the Levites touching their charge.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p5">We read before of the separating of the
Levites from among the children of Israel when they were numbered,
and the numbering of them by themselves (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p5.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.3.6 Bible:Num.3.15" parsed="|Num|3|6|0|0;|Num|3|15|0|0" passage="Nu 3:6,15"><i>ch.</i> iii. 6, 15</scripRef>), that they might be
employed in the service of the tabernacle. Now here we have
directions given for their solemn ordination (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p5.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.6" parsed="|Num|8|6|0|0" passage="Nu 8:6"><i>v.</i> 6</scripRef>), and the performance of it,
<scripRef id="Num.ix-p5.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.20" parsed="|Num|8|20|0|0" passage="Nu 8:20"><i>v.</i> 20</scripRef>. All Israel
must know that they took not this honour to themselves, but were
called of God to it; nor was it enough that they were distinguished
from their neighbours, but they must be solemnly devoted to God.
Note, All that are employed for God must be dedicated to him,
according as the degree of employment is. Christian musts be
baptized, ministers must be ordained; we must first give ourselves
unto the Lord, and then our services. Observe in what method this
was done:</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p6">I. The Levites must be cleansed, and were
so. The rites and ceremonies of their cleansing were to be
performed, 1. By themselves. They must <i>wash their clothes,</i>
and not only bathe, but <i>shave all their flesh,</i> as the leper
was to do when he was cleansed, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p6.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.14.8" parsed="|Lev|14|8|0|0" passage="Le 14:8">Lev.
xiv. 8</scripRef>. They must <i>cause a razor to pass over all
their flesh,</i> to clear themselves from that defilement which
would not wash off. Jacob, whom God loved, was a smooth man; it was
Esau that was hairy. The great pains they were to take with
themselves to make themselves clean teaches all Christians, and
ministers particularly, by repentance and mortification, to
<i>cleanse themselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,</i>
that they may <i>perfect holiness.</i> Those must be clean that
bear the vessels of the Lord. 2. By Moses. He must <i>sprinkle the
water of purifying upon them,</i> which was prepared by divine
direction. This signified the application of the blood of Christ to
our souls by faith, to purify us from an evil conscience, that we
may be fit to serve the living God. It is our duty to cleanse
ourselves, and God's promise that he will cleanse us.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p7">II. The Levites, being thus prepared, must
be brought before the Lord in a solemn assembly of all Israel, and
the <i>children of Israel</i> must <i>put their hands upon them</i>
(<scripRef id="Num.ix-p7.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.10" parsed="|Num|8|10|0|0" passage="Nu 8:10"><i>v.</i> 10</scripRef>), so
transferring their interest in them and in their service (to which,
as a part, the whole body of the people was entitled) to God and to
his sanctuary. They presented them to God <i>as living sacrifices,
holy and acceptable,</i> to perform a <i>reasonable service;</i>
and therefore, as the offerers in all other cases did, <i>they laid
their hands upon them,</i> desiring that their service might be
accepted in lieu of the attendance of the whole congregation,
particularly the first-born, which they acknowledge God might have
insisted on. This will not serve to prove a power in the people to
ordain ministers; for this imposition of hands by the children of
Israel upon the Levites did not make them ministers of the
sanctuary, but only signified the people's parting with that tribe
out of their militia, and civil incorporations, in order to their
being made ministers by Aaron, who was to offer them before the
Lord. All the congregation of the children of Israel could not lay
hands on them, but it is probable that the rulers and elders did it
as the representative body of the people. Some think that the
first-born did it because in their stead the Levites were
consecrated to God. Whatever God calls for from us to serve his own
glory by, we must cheerfully resign it, lay our hands upon it, not
to detain it but to surrender it, and let it go to him that is
entitled to it.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p8">III. Sacrifices were to be offered for
them, a sin-offering first (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p8.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.12" parsed="|Num|8|12|0|0" passage="Nu 8:12"><i>v.</i>
12</scripRef>), and then a burnt-offering, to make an <i>atonement
for the Levites,</i> who, as the parties concerned, were to lay
their hands upon the head of the sacrifices. See here, 1. That we
are all utterly unworthy and unfit to be admitted into and employed
in the service of God, till atonement be made for sin, and thereby
our peace made with God. That interposing cloud must be scattered
before there can be any comfortable communion settled between God
and our souls. 2. That it is by sacrifice, by Christ the great
sacrifice, that we are reconciled to God, and made fit to be
offered to him. It is by him that Christians are sanctified to the
work of their Christianity, and ministers to the work of their
ministry. The learned bishop Patrick's notion of the sacrifice
offered by the Levites is that the Levites were themselves
considered as an expiatory sacrifice, for they were given to
<i>make atonement for the children of Israel,</i> (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p8.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.19" parsed="|Num|8|19|0|0" passage="Nu 8:19"><i>v.</i> 19</scripRef>), and yet not being
devoted to death, any more than the first-born were, these two
sacrifices were substituted in their stead, upon which therefore
they were to lay their hands, that the sin which the children of
Israel laid upon them (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p8.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.10" parsed="|Num|8|10|0|0" passage="Nu 8:10"><i>v.</i>
10</scripRef>) might be transferred to these beasts.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p9">IV. The Levites themselves were <i>offered
before the Lord</i> for an <i>offering of the children of
Israel,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p9.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.11" parsed="|Num|8|11|0|0" passage="Nu 8:11"><i>v.</i> 11</scripRef>.
Aaron gave them up to God, as being first given up by themselves,
and by the children of Israel. The original word signifies a
<i>wave-offering,</i> not that they were actually waved, but they
were presented to God as the God of heaven, and the Lord of the
whole earth, as the wave-offerings were. And in calling them
wave-offerings it was intimated to them that they must continually
lift up themselves towards God in his service, lift up their eyes,
lift up their hearts, and must move to and fro with readiness in
the business of their profession. They were not ordained to be
idle, but to be active and stirring.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p10">V. God here declares his acceptance of
them: <i>The Levites shall be mine,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p10.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.14" parsed="|Num|8|14|0|0" passage="Nu 8:14"><i>v.</i> 14</scripRef>. God took them instead of the
first-born (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p10.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.16-Num.8.18" parsed="|Num|8|16|8|18" passage="Nu 8:16-18"><i>v.</i>
16-18</scripRef>), of which before, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p10.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.3.4" parsed="|Num|3|4|0|0" passage="Nu 3:4"><i>ch.</i> iii. 41</scripRef>. Note, What is in sincerity
offered to God shall be graciously owned and accepted by him. And
his ministers who have obtained mercy of him to be faithful have
particular marks of favour and honour put upon them: <i>they shall
be mine,</i> and then (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p10.4" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.15" parsed="|Num|8|15|0|0" passage="Nu 8:15"><i>v.</i>
15</scripRef>) they shall <i>go in to do the service of the
tabernacle.</i> God takes them for his own, that they may serve
him. All that expect to share in the privileges of the tabernacle
must resolve to do the service of the tabernacle. As, on the one
hand, none of God's creatures are his necessary servants (he needs
not the service of any of them), so, on the other hand, none are
taken merely as honorary servants, to do nothing. All whom God owns
he employs; angels themselves have their services.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p11">VI. They are then given as a gift to Aaron
and his sons (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p11.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.19" parsed="|Num|8|19|0|0" passage="Nu 8:19"><i>v.</i> 19</scripRef>),
yet so as that the benefit accrued to the children of Israel. 1.
The Levites must act under the priests as attendants on them, and
assistants to them, in the service of the sanctuary. Aaron offers
them to God (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p11.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.11" parsed="|Num|8|11|0|0" passage="Nu 8:11"><i>v.</i> 11</scripRef>),
and then God gives them back to Aaron, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p11.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.19" parsed="|Num|8|19|0|0" passage="Nu 8:19"><i>v.</i> 19</scripRef>. Note, Whatever we give up to
God, he will give back to us unspeakably to our advantage. Our
hearts, our children, our estates, are never more ours, more truly,
more comfortably ours, than when we have offered them up to God. 2.
They must act for the people. They were taken to <i>do the service
of the children of Israel,</i> that is, not only to do the service
which they should do, but to serve their interests, and do that
which would really redound to the honour, safety, and prosperity of
the whole nation. Note, Those that faithfully perform the service
of God do one of the best services that can be done to the public;
God's ministers, while they keep within the sphere of their office
and conscientiously discharge the duty of it, must be looked upon
as some of the most useful servants of their country. The children
of Israel can as ill spare the tribe of Levi as any of their
tribes. But what is the service they do the children of Israel? It
follows, it is to <i>make an atonement for them, that there be no
plague among them.</i> It was the priests' work to make atonement
by sacrifice, but the Levites made atonement by attendance, and
preserved the peace with heaven which was made by sacrifice. If the
service of the priests in the tabernacle had been left to all the
first-born of Israel promiscuously, it would have been either
neglected or done unskillfully and irreverently, being done by
those that were not so closely tied to it, nor so diligently
trained to it, nor so constantly used to it, as the Levites were;
and this would bring <i>a plague among the children of
Israel</i>—meaning, perhaps, the death of the first-born
themselves, which was the last and greatest of the plagues of
Egypt. To prevent this, and to preserve the atonement, the Levites
were appointed to do this service, who should be bred up to it
under their parents from their infancy, and therefore would be well
versed in it; and so the children of Israel, that is, the
first-born, should not need to come nigh to the sanctuary; or, when
any Israelites had occasion, the Levites would be ready to instruct
them, and introduce them, and so prevent any fatal miscarriage or
mistake. Note, It is a very great kindness to the church that
ministers are appointed to go before the people in the things of
God, as guides, overseers, and rulers, in religious worship, and to
make that their business. When Christ ascended on high, he <i>gave
these gifts,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p11.4" osisRef="Bible:Eph.4.8 Bible:Eph.4.11 Bible:Eph.4.12" parsed="|Eph|4|8|0|0;|Eph|4|11|0|0;|Eph|4|12|0|0" passage="Eph 4:8,11,12">Eph. iv. 8, 11,
12</scripRef>.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Num.ix-p12">VII. The time of their ministration is
fixed. 1. They were to enter upon the service at twenty-five years
old, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p12.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.24" parsed="|Num|8|24|0|0" passage="Nu 8:24"><i>v.</i> 24</scripRef>. They were
not charged with the carrying of the tabernacle and the utensils of
it till they were thirty years old, <scripRef id="Num.ix-p12.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.4.3" parsed="|Num|4|3|0|0" passage="Nu 4:3"><i>ch.</i> iv. 3</scripRef>. But they were entered to be
otherwise serviceable at twenty-five years old, a very good age for
ministers to begin their public work at. The work then required
that strength of body and the work now requires that maturity of
judgment and steadiness of behaviour which men rarely arrive at
till about that age; and novices are in danger of being lifted up
with pride. 2. They were to have a writ of ease at fifty years old;
then they were to return from the warfare, as the phrase is
(<scripRef id="Num.ix-p12.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.8.25" parsed="|Num|8|25|0|0" passage="Nu 8:25"><i>v.</i> 25</scripRef>), not
cashiered with disgrace, but preferred rather to the rest which
their age required, to be loaded with the honours of their office,
as hitherto they had been with the burdens of it. They shall
<i>minister with their brethren in the tabernacle,</i> to direct
the junior Levites, and set them in; and they shall <i>keep the
charge,</i> as guards upon the avenues of the tabernacle, to see
that no stranger intruded, nor any person in his uncleanness, but
they shall not be put upon any service which may be a fatigue to
them. If God's grace provide that men shall have ability according
to their work, man's prudence should take care that men have work
only according to their ability. The aged are most fit for trusts,
and to keep the charge; the younger are most fit for work, and to
do the service. Those that have <i>used the office of a servant
well purchase to themselves a good degree,</i> <scripRef id="Num.ix-p12.4" osisRef="Bible:1Tim.3.13" parsed="|1Tim|3|13|0|0" passage="1Ti 3:13">1 Tim. iii. 13</scripRef>. Yet indeed gifts are not tied
to ages (<scripRef id="Num.ix-p12.5" osisRef="Bible:Job.32.9" parsed="|Job|32|9|0|0" passage="Job 32:9">Job xxxii. 9</scripRef>), but
<i>all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit.</i> Thus
was the affair of the Levites settled.</p>
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