Exodus 40:35

Exodus 40:35

33 ^aAnd he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses ^bfinished the work.

The Cloud and the Glory

34 ^aThen the ^bcloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the ^cglory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

35 And Moses ^awas not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

36 ^aWhenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would¹ go onward in all their journeys.

37 But ^aif the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up.

38 For ^athe cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation—How does this circumstance show the incapacity of man, in his present state, to look upon the unveiled perfections of the Godhead! Moses could not endure the unclouded effulgence, nor the sublimest of the prophets (Isaiah 6:5). But what neither Moses nor the most eminent of God's messengers to the ancient church through the weakness of nature could endure, we can all now do by an exercise of faith; looking unto Jesus, who reflected with chastened radiance the brightness of the Father's glory; and who, having as the Forerunner for us, entered within the veil, has invited us to come boldly to the mercy seat. While Moses was compelled, through the influence of overwhelming awe, to stand aloof and could not enter the tabernacle, Christ entered into the holy place not made with hands; nay, He is Himself the true tabernacle, filled with the glory of God, ever with the grace and truth which the Shekinah typified. What great reason we have to thank God for Jesus Christ, who, while He Himself was the brightness of the Father's glory, yet exhibited that glory in so mild and attractive a manner, as to allure us to draw near with confidence and love into the Divine Presence!

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