10. praying without--outside the court in front of the temple, where
stood the altar of burnt offering; the men and women in separate courts,
but the altar visible to all.
the time of incense--which was offered along with the morning and
eveningsacrifice of every day; a beautiful symbol of the acceptableness
of the sacrifice offered on the altar of burnt offering, with coals
from whose altar the incense was burnt
(Le 16:12, 13).
This again was a symbol of the "living sacrifice" of themselves and
their services offered daily to God by the worshippers. Hence the
language of
Ps 141:2;
Re 8:3.
But that the acceptance of this daily offering depended on the
expiatory virtue presupposed in the burnt offering, and pointing
to the one "sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor"
(Eph 5:2),
is evident from
Isa 6:6, 7.
JFB.
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