{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4624","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":30,"chapter_to":30,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":26,"verse_to":26},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: It is necessary to warn and to indicate how the Scripture commands to anoint with the oil of the anointing all the things, that is to say, the tabernacle and the things that were in it, and then it adds: They will be sancta sanctorum (Exodus 30,29). This means that all things, once anointed, will be \"sancta sanctorum.\" It is necessary to investigate more thoroughly the difference that could exist between those interior things, covered by the veil, and the others, if all of them, once anointed, become \"sancta sanctorum\". This we thought it appropriate to point out. In this regard we will also remember: With reference to the sacrificial altar, which the author wanted to be called the saint's saint after the anointing, immediately before it was said: Everyone who touches it will be sanctified (Exodus 29,37). When speaking after all those things that, once anointed with that anointing, receive the name of \"sancta sanctorum\", the same affirmation continues: All who touch them will be sanctified (Exodus 30,29), which can be understood in two ways: Or be sanctified when touched, or sanctified so that it is lawful to touch them, if it was not lawful for the people to touch the tabernacle when it presented sacrifices or anything else the people contributed to offer it to God. And in keeping with this the text warns that it is not only to say to the priests or the Levites what God says to Moses: And you will speak to the children of Israel - the children of Israel were, of course, all that people - telling them: This oil, which will be used for the anointing, will be a saint for you in your generations. He will not anoint man's flesh; and you shall not do anything similar to this composition for yourselves. It is holy and it will be sanctification for you. Whoever makes another like him and whoever gives part of him to a foreign nation, will be exterminated from his people. The Lord commands not only the priests, but all the people of Israel, not to make such an ointment for ordinary uses. For this is what it means: It will not anoint the flesh of man. It forbids, then, that something similar be done for ordinary uses and threatens death to whoever does something similar, that is, to whoever makes a similar ointment for ordinary uses or who gives it to a foreign nation. But for what is said next: It will be sanctification for you, since God commands that this be said to all the people of Israel, I do not see how it can be interpreted, unless it is admitted that it was lawful for the people to touch the tabernacle when each one came with his own offerings, and, when touched, they were sanctified by that oil with which they anointed all things. And that is why it is added: Everyone who touches it will be sanctified. But the people were not sanctified as the priests, who were also anointed with the oil to perform the priestly functions.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON EXODUS, Q. 135 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d532fae73f6f6d667f915d4cfe57b9e549816cd295cdce8241dd37ee20e851cb","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4624,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ff06bc65b2e299d7e537ebb1ad2ad00501829101ec70a42a464b635bcfe12d06","translator":null,"work":null}