Exodus 30:34 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

frankincense

Frankincense is not to be confounded with incense (to which it was to be added), as it is often used apart from incense. We are told what composed the incense -- never in Scripture what the frankincense was. All speaks of Christ -- the sweet spices of those perfections which we may apprehend, the frankincense of that which God saw in Jesus ineffable.

Exodus 30:34

34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: