hornes] Made like hornes sharpe and crooked, partly for ornament, partly for use; and the use, as some conceive was, chiefly to bind the sacrifice to the Altar, Psalms 118:27. which was to be offered upon the Altar. with brasse] The woodden part of the Altar, was to be overlaid or covered with brasse to preserve it from fire, and yet it was strange, that the brasse very much heated did not burne the wood; and there was, as some conceive, an especiall providence in it, that it did not so, God as he sent it down upon the Altar overruling the operation of it at his pleasure, yet the Altar being so broad, the fire might be kept in a grate at due distance from the wood.