* pure oil olive beaten.
That is, such oil as could be easily expressed from the
olives, after they had been bruised in a mortar; and which is
much purer than that obtained after the olives are put under
the press.
39:37 Le 24:2-4 Jud 9:9 Ps 23:5 Zec 4:11-14 Re 11:4
* for the light.
25:31-37
* to cause the lamp.
Josephus says, that the whole of the seven lamps burned all
night; and that in the morning four were extinguished, and
three burned the whole of the day. Such might have been the
practice in his time; but it appears sufficiently evident
from ch. 30:8, and 1; Sa 3:3, that they were anciently
extinguished in the morning.
* to burn. Heb. to ascend up.
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