Leviticus 24:3,4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Is not JESUS'S priesthood, as an unchanging, never-ceasing priesthood, here represented? And subordinate to him, are not the services of his ministers also intended to be set forth? While we pray that our great High Priest from the evening even to the morning, continually, will keep our souls alive, that his lamp of grace may never go out; Oh that everyone who acts in that high department, as a minister of the sanctuary, may learn from hence to hold forth the word of life, and daily in the temple, and from house to house, cease not to teach and to preach JESUS CHRIST. JESUS! do thou, who holdest thy ministers as stars in thy right hand while walking amidst the golden candlesticks, do thou be their light, that they may be burning and shining lights to thy people; that the lamp of thy sacred word may, by their ministry and thy blessing, be always shining clear in the midst of thy churches! Before we dismiss these verses, let me just further observe upon them, that the word which in the second verse is translated lamps, is in the original lamp; but in Leviticus 24:4 the word is plural, lamps. Perhaps the design was this: All the lamps in the temple service represented one and the same, even the HOLY GHOST; and who is, in the Revelation, described by seven spirits which are before the throne. Revelation 1:4. and seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of GOD. Revelation 4:5. The sacred language hath various ways of expressing this glorious truth, by way of representing the various gifts and operations of the HOLY GHOST; but they all refer to one and the same; for saith an apostle, though there be diversities of operations, yet all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 1 Corinthians 12:11.