Prima Secundae
Lecture 266: The Tabernacle Furnishings and Their Spiritual Significance

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You know, chalices sometimes on the altar and it always makes you more reverent I think. I was speaking to her once years ago and she was saying that she was greatly troubled with the frills that she had turned into the panaceas, the Catholic worship, and boy I wish I had known this section of Suba back then. Yeah. You know, you go to Europe and you find sometimes a place where the church is taken over by the Protestants or something like that and they, you know, kind of made it very plain, you know, the church, you know. That doesn't give you the same reverence, right? Even, you know, when you go for benediction in the old days, you know, and the thing they were doing when he, you know. Well, he doesn't need that, he could, you know, give it without that and so on. But you always, you know, see much more reverence, right? That's kind of the high point of the benediction, when he blessed the church, that's what it means. Blessing and… We use that, you know. Well, we used to do that. Yeah, well, we don't know. We don't do that anymore. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Even the robes of the priest, though, you know, is a special thing, right, huh? Yeah. And there's a reason to do that, right? Right. And, because he's kind of the principle they're offering, the sacrifice, obviously. And so, hey, you can do some more reverence there when you see that, huh? Or somebody that showed up with a really, a really super new one, you know, I don't know who gives it to them or something, but… So, this is kind of the beginning Thomas had, but then he's got a reply to each one of these ones in particular to show that this is an example of that, right? No, no, not two here. But, likewise, huh? The status of the old law, as has been said, was also instituted to figuring the mystery of Christ, right? And this is the second thing, right, huh? Now, it's necessary that there be something determined that through which something is ought to be, what, figured or signified, right? That it represents some likeness of that thing, right? And, therefore, it's necessary for some special things to be observed in those things which pertain to the cult of God. There's really two reasons he can give, right? Yeah. Then… Yeah. Yeah. Now he's all set to go. Start. Can we take a break? Sure, sure, sure, sure. Thomas, to take up the objection, so… To the first, therefore, it should be said that the worship of God regards two things, right? To it, God who is in worship, right? And men who are doing the worshipping, right? Now, God himself, who is worshipped, is not, what, contained by any, what, bodily place, right? Whence an account of him is not necessary for a tabernacle to come to be, right? Or a temple, right? But men who are worshipping him are, what, bodily things, right? And an account of them is necessary for a special tabernacle or a temple to be instituted for the worship of God, and this an account of, what, two reasons, right, huh? First, that coming together for such a place, with this, what, thinking, right? That is deputed for worshipping God, right? They will exceed with greater, what? Reverence, huh? So, when people come to church, they usually, you know, tend to diminish their talking, right? And for teachers, more reverence, huh? I remember there was a little altar boy, you know, and the pastor who says, go to the church and tell his people to be quiet. And second, through the disposition of such a temple or tabernacle, right, are signified some things pertaining to the excellence of either the divinity or of the, what, humanity of, what, Christ, huh? That's where the first book of the Companion of Theology is divided, right, according to the divinity and the humanity of Christ, huh? And this is what Solomon says in the third book of, what, Kings, chapter 8, huh? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens are not able to, what, contain you, I guess, how much more this house, huh, which I have built for you, right? And afterwards, huh, let your eyes be, what, open upon this house about which you said there will be, what, my name there, right, that you might hear the prayer of your servant and of the people, what, Israel, right? From which it is clear that the house of the sanctuary is not instituted for this, that it might, what, capture God or contain him, right, as it were inhabiting locally, but for this, that the, what, name of God ought to, what, dwell there, huh? That is that the knowledge of God is there made known, right, or manifested through some things which come about there or which are said there, right, huh? And then an account of the reverence that they have for the place, the prayers become more, what, hearable, right, from the devotion of those, what, praying, right, huh? I mentioned before, huh, then the virtue of religion devotion is the first act that Thomas will talk about, right? And then you have maybe the prayer being like a second act, right, but we see it's in that devotion, huh, okay? So it's not an account of God that we have the church, right? To contain them, you know, a place to put them, it's a place to put us, right? And so we went with more reverence, right, huh? And also, I always remember this, this case of my children, you know, one time. My wife was going to see a doctor there on, what part was it, Pleasant Avenue or whatever it is, and so I got all these kids with me, right? And so, we were right across the street from the Blessed Sacrament Church, right, huh, okay? I don't know if you've ever been there at that particular church, but it was right across the street from the doctor's office, so Rosie went in and, you know, and I took the kids across the street there, and there's kind of a little representation of Fatima, I think it is, yeah, Fatima, you know, statues, you know, and so on. And I wasn't even explaining what it was, right, we were just kind of walking around with kind of the little, you know, plants there and so on, you know? And I hadn't said anything about the thing at all, I just didn't know what to do with these kids, right? And then I noticed my children were like this, you know? And I was not leading them in prayer like that, I was just walking around with them, you know? And then I realized that they'd seen, you know, the little statues of the little children of Fatima, right, where they went to pray, and now they were imitating, yeah, yeah. And, you know, it just struck me, you know? And this, I don't know if you've ever been to, in Clinton there, this St. John's Church, you know? I've been there for a number of weddings and more funerals and weddings, but it's a beautiful church, you know? And the representation, the art is really good in there, right? And I'm very impressed with that every time I go there. But actually, they've had more vocations to the priesthood, you know, than any other parish in the Diocese of Worcester, you know? You can see, it makes sense, you know? Beautiful church, you know? I mean, our parish church, you know, as it goes back, it's got these windows from Florence, you know, because I've paid a fortune for them in the past, you know, but it's non-representational, right? Just, you know, shafts of light, you know? When my daughter was going to get married, you know, she arranged to get married in the cathedral downtown, right? She said, I want to get married in a real church, she said. So, but you can see it, you know, I mean, it doesn't impress, you know, children, you know. It doesn't, you know, we learn by imitation, right? Man is the most imitator of the animals, right? And at first we learn by imitation, right? So it's not to put God someplace, but to put us in a place where we're more devout, right? And where the building itself is going to lead us to think about things. You can see me, you know, the tabernacle, and I see the words there. A lot of the tabernacles have alpha and omega. You've seen that, huh? You know, of course, it gets me going on. Yeah, I am the alpha. It's on the other side. Yeah, so I am the alpha and the omega, right? And it gets me thinking, you know, even an old man like me, you know. Those words in apocalypse, huh? There's one church we go to in Kansas City there. They were there sometimes at my daughter's. And, you know, you've got, on one wall, you've got all these beautiful pictures of the life of the Blessed Virgin, you know, and the brother of Christ, you know. It's beautiful, you know, just to see what they've done there. That's really wonderful for a child, it seems to me, huh? Okay, to second, should we say, huh? That the status of the old law was not changed before Christ as regards the, what, fulfillment of the law, right, huh? Which was made only, what, through Christ, huh? But nevertheless, it was changed as regards the condition of the people who were under the law, right? So the second objection was saying, you know, the new law, the old law is going to be changed by Christ, right? So why do you have a change here from tabernacle to temple, I guess, right? Well, not on account of the change that Christ was going to bring about in that, the liturgy, so we say. But the people, right, their status, right? For the first people were in the, what? Desert. Not having a certain dwelling, right? Men's, you know. That's interesting, huh? Remember the old saying that, in my father's house, there are many, what? Yeah, yeah. It was a kind of more permanent dwelling, right? Why, out in the desert, it was just, what? It was a temporary thing, right? Because you were moving along, yeah? And afterwards, they had various, what? Battles with little nations, right? But at last, in the time of David and Solomon, that people had a certain, what? Most quiet status, a creatissimum statum, huh? And then first was built the temple, right? In the place which Abraham, what? Designated, right? From the divine showing for, what? Immolating things, huh? For he said in Genesis 22 that the Lord commanded Abraham that he offer his son in the holocaust, right? Upon one of the mountains which I will show to you, right? Now, he's in Jerusalem, he's built on a mountain, isn't it? Yeah. And afterwards, that he named, he gave the name to that place, right? That God, what? Sees, right, huh? As if according to the forevision of God, was this place chosen for the, what? Divine worship. Whence it is said in Deuteronomy 12, to this place with the Lord, our God chose, right? You have come, huh? And you should offer, what? Holocaust and your victims, right, huh? Now, that place ought not to be designated to the building of the temple before the time, what? Predicted, right? An account of three reasons, huh? Which Rabbi Moses, huh? Assigns, huh? First, lest, what? The Gentiles, yeah? Appropriate that place for themselves, huh? That's probably having out the Mohammedans, right? Secondly, lest the Gentiles, what? Would destroy it, right, huh? Third reason, huh? Est, lest any, what? The tribe wishes to have that place in its, what? Its sort, in its, yeah. An account of this, so it arise, what? Disagreements and fights and so on. And therefore, there was not built a temple until they had a king, to whom this conflict, right, could be restrained, right? Whence before the, what? Yeah. For the cult worship of God was ordered a tabernacle that was portatile, huh? Portable, huh? Through diverse places, huh? As if not yet existing, determined place for the divine cult. And this is the reason, literalis, right? The literal reason, huh? Of the diversity of the tabernacle and the, what? Temple. Now, also, you're so thorough, Thomas. He's an amazing, amazing guy, this guy, huh? That kind of refers to what? The first reason there in the text, in the body of the article. But the figurative reason, which is referring to the second one, can be this, that through these two are signified a two-fold, what? Status, huh? Because through the tent, you might say, right? Which is changeable, is signifying the status of the present, what? Changeable life, huh? But through the temple that was fixed and standing, it signified the status of the future life, which is altogether invariable, huh? That's what I was thinking, a mansion, right? You know? Reminded me of that, huh? I wasn't thinking this reply, but that's very good, huh? In my father's house, there are many mansions, right? See? You've got to stay there forever. In account of this, in the building of the temple, it is said that there is not a hearing of the sound of the, what, hammer, or the saw, right? To signifying that all the tumult of perturbation will be far away from the future, what? Status, huh? Or through the tabernacle signified the state of the old law, through the temple constructed by Solomon, the status of the new law, right? Whence for the construction of the tabernacle, only the Jews, what? Yeah. But to the building of the temple cooperated also the Gentiles, those of Tyre and Sidon, huh? Okay, this is a beautiful topic, so nice. Makes you want to read the Old Testament more, right? I don't know, just to see all these things. Now, what about simplicity there, right? Yeah, you should have more, right? You should have more temples and churches, right? To the third, it should be said that the reason for the unity of the temple or the tabernacle can be both, what, the literal reason and the figurative reason, huh? The literal one is the reason for the exclusion of, what, idolatry, right? Because the Gentiles constituted or established diverse temples for a diverse, what, gods, huh? Well, you should have them in the Roman temples, don't you? Different ones, huh? And therefore that there might be made firm in the souls of men faith of the unity of God, huh? God wished that in one place only that sacrifice would be offered to him, right? So respecting the unity of God there, huh? That's the reason why Thomas yanks out the unity from the simplicity of God and makes this a special consideration, huh? Five things, okay? And again, so that through this might be shown that the bodily worship was not on account of itself, what, accepted, right? And therefore it was, what, it was restrained, yeah, compeship. less in a passing way and everywhere sacrifices would be offered but the worship of the new law in which sacrifice spiritual grace is contained is in itself accepted by God and therefore the multiplication of altars and temples is accepted in the new law as regards those things which pertain to the spiritual worship of God which consists in the teaching of the law of the prophets there were also in the old law diverse places deputed, right, in which they might come together, right, to the praise of God which were called, what, synagogue just as now they are called, what, churches in which the Christian people are congregated to the praise of God and thus our church succeeds to the place, in place of the temple and the synagogue because its sacrifice of the church is spiritual, right, huh once there is not distinguished with us the place of sacrifice and the place of what teaching that's interesting so you've got to get up to the podium there and give you a lecture, right give you a sermon the figurative reason can be because this has signified the unity of the church either the militant one or the torrent one now the fourth one here is about unity and simplicity of God, right, huh there shouldn't be all these veils and all this complication, right, huh to the fourth it should be said that just as in the unity of the temple or of the tabernacle is represented the unity of God, right or the unity of the, what, church, huh so also in the distinction of the tabernacle or the temple is represented the distinction of those things which are subject to God from which we rise up in, what veneration of God but it's on our side, right and on the side of God we need these different parts, huh I noticed that I go to Florence or some place and like the baptism is more separate from the yeah that's kind of you know for a different but it's sort of kind of a reason, right, huh it's on our part, right, huh sometimes the they have the place where you baptize the child kind of is an introduction to the place where you worship God and have the other sacraments, right you know that's kind of signifies that you come into the church through baptism, right but it's on our part, right not the unity of God the tabernacle is distinguished into two parts in one which is called the Sancta Sanctorum huh which was what in the west, right and the other which was called the Sancta the holy place which was to the what orient to the east, yeah and again before the tabernacle was the what atrium now this distinction had a two-fold reason one because according as the tabernacle was ordered to the worship of God thus the diverse parts of the world are figured are figured in the distinction of the what tabernacle for in that part which is called the Sancta Sanctorum the holy of holies is figured the what higher world right which is that of the spiritual substances huh the angels right that's where the angel appeared to Zachary was it the holy of holies wasn't it yeah that's appropriate it signifies on the sorry part he was a high priest wasn't he a high priest at that time no because he was one of the instant high priest like the high priest high priest the one that's chosen for the whole life okay the other was called the Sancta which was to the east oh excuse me that part which is called the Sancta the holy one expresses the bodily what world right not easy they make just a footnote here but itself but did you ever study these praises of God like in the in Daniel there the one they take from three men yeah yeah and and then the one that you have like in the regular Psalms there like 148 is it but they all praise the heavens and the earth and then the third part is praising man right it's kind of interesting huh because this is worshipping God really yeah and but you you have something corresponding to the immaterial world something corresponding to the immaterial world right then you go to man who's kind of a hodgepodge of both and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to the and then you go to the and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to and then you go to the compendium there where he's talking about how man was you know he's given the soul which is so far above and more noble than his body right and his soul is naturally immortal his body is not naturally immortal right now so God had to give him this original justice right so that the body would be subject to the soul right now and not be subject to corruption and death right now it's like you had you had to make a remedy for this hodgepodge he had created you know or you got kind of an inequality there between the immortal soul and the body yet the soul isn't actually the form of the body so it should really have a body that doesn't sin to death right yeah it kind of ruined the children's right and therefore the sancta the holy from the holy of holies is that what they call them sancta the holy yeah are distinguished by a certain veil right which was distinguished by what four colors right to which the four elements are what designated right by what because this is that is linen right arises from the earth right purple right which signifies what water for it comes the purple color from certain what shells which are found in the sea hyacinth which is in the fire because it is a what yeah the area is called kako what's that twice tinted which is designated fire right and this therefore is because the matter of the four elements is an impediment which is veiled for us in corporeal what substances that's quite an explanation this Thomas and therefore in the inner tabernacle that is in the holy of holies or or or or or or Only the summa satcherdosa, the high priest, right? And once in the year, right? Only once in a year. I heard they tie some kind of rope to him. Yeah. In case he dies inside, because nobody else could enter. Nobody else, yeah. Okay. That they might be designated through this the final, what? Last perfection of man. That, to that, what? He might be introduced to that age, right? But in the exterior tabernacle, that is in the sancta, the holy, the priests enter, what? Daily, huh? But not over the people, who only accede to the, what? The what? Court. Court, yeah. Called itch in there. Because that, what? People was able to perceive bodies, huh? Only, as it were. But to the interior reasons of them things, only the wise are able to attain by consideration. What a multitude of wonderful things here, huh? Now, it's all been on your exam, so make sure you can, you can, yeah. According to the figurative reason, right, huh? Through the exterior tabernacle, which is called the sancta, it signified the status of the, what? Old law, as the apostle says in the epistle to the Hebrews chapter 9. Because to that tabernacle, always the, what? Priests enters, consummating, right? The offices of the duties of sacrifices. But through the inner tabernacle, which was called the sancta sanctorum, the holy of holies, is signified either the, what? Celestial glory, or else the status, the spiritual status of the new law, which is, in a way, a certain beginning of future glory, in which status Christ introduces us, who is figured through this that the high priest, the highest priest, right, the sumus sacerdotes, once in a year, right, alone, entered into the holy of, what? Holies. But the veil signified the hiding of the, what? Spiritual sacrifices in the old sacrifice, huh? That the veil was adorned, yeah, with four colors, for, by the, what? To designate the purity of the flesh, right, huh? By the purple, to designate the passions, right? Which the saints sustained for God. Twice anointed, to signify the two-fold charity of God and neighbor, right? My goodness. By the hyacinth, it signified celestial meditation. Isn't there a hyacinth tea now that they got out? I'll have to try that. See, it helps my meditation. I don't know. Okay. To the status of the old law, another way pertains the people, and another way the, what? Priests, huh? For the people considered those bodily sacrifices which were offered in the, what? Court or atrium. The priests considered the reason of the sacrifices, having faith more explicit about the mysteries of the, what? Of Christ. And therefore, they entered into the exterior tabernacle, which also was distinguished by a certain veil from the atrium, because these things were hidden to the people about the mystery of Christ, which were known to the, what? Priests. But nevertheless, these were not fully revealed to them, just as they were afterwards in the New Testament, as is had in Ephesians 3, 5. So you can put your homework, look up, 3, 5 there. Okay. Now, going a little bit through. Yeah, number 5 here. Yeah. It's the East-West controversy here, right? To the, yeah, the East and West. To the 5th, it should be said that adoring to the East was introduced in the law to exclude, what? Adolity, right? I mean, excuse me, adoration to the, what? West, I should say. It was introduced into the law to excluding idolatry for all the Gentiles in reverence of the, what? Sun adored to the, what? East. Whence it is said, Ezekiel 8, 16, huh? That they had their, what? Backs? Backs to the temple. Against the temple of the Lord and their faces to the East. And they adored at the rising of the, what? Sun. Sun. It was Egyptian down there, right? Didn't they talk to the sun? Was it? Yeah. Once the, to excluding this, the Tarabernacle had the Holy of Holies to the, what? West. So that they would adore towards the West, huh? The rise of the West. But the figurative reason can be because the whole status of the old, of the, of the earlier Tabernacle was ordered to figuring the death of Christ, which is signified by his, what? Yeah, by his going down, right? According to that is Psalm 67, huh? Was ascended upon the, what? Going down. The Lord is his, what? Should we stop there? What is it like that? Got these long ones. Next one goes on for a long time. We'd be here till, till beyond the new time. Mm. Mm. Mm. We'd be here till the new time. Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. Thank you, God. Thank you, Guardian Angels. Thank you, Thomas Aquinas. Deo gratias. God, our enlightenment, Guardian Angels, strengthen the lights of our minds, illumine our images, and arouse us to consider more correctly. St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelic Doctor. Amen. And help us to understand all that you have written. In the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay, so we're on the question 102. Article 4, and we're up to the sixth one here. To the sixth, it should be said that of those things which are contained in the tabernacle, a reason, both literal and figurative, can be rendered. The literal one, or the lettered one, is by relation to the divine, what? Worship. And because it has been said that by the interior, or through the interior tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies, is signified the what? Age of the what? Spiritual substances. Didn't know that, did you? Yeah, it's question 102, article 4. And it's the reply to the sixth. And therefore, in that tabernacle, three things are contained. To it, the ark of the, what? Testament, right? In which was the golden, what? Urn, I guess, huh? What? Yeah, urn or cotton. Yeah, having manna. And the rod of, what? Urn, which flowered, I guess, huh? And the tables, that's the commandment, right? In which were written, or down, the ten precepts of the law, three and seven, huh? And this ark was situated between two cherubim, who looked at each other, right? And over the ark was a certain, what? Table, right? Which was called the, what? Propition. Upon the, what? Wings of the cherubim. As if they were carried by, what? The cherubim themselves, right? As if one imagines that table to be the seat of, what? God, huh? Hasn't the cherubim got the idea of seat, huh? Can they interpret the name? When I was in college, I used to say, you know, seat of wisdom, pray for us. And why was Mary called the seat of wisdom? So I had to say, Professor, what did they call that? I don't know. But the idea is that a seat is always, what? Open to receiving you, right? So she's always ready to receive the wisdom of God, huh? Okay. So I think the cherubim has something in that meaning, right? The word itself, huh? Seat of God's wisdom. Hmm, okay. Whence it was called the, what? Propitiation, huh? As if the, what? Through it, there was, what? A propitiation for the people upon the, what? Prayers of the high priest, huh? And therefore, it is a work carried by the cherubim, huh? As it were serving God, huh? And the ark of the testament was like a, what? Footstool, yeah. Sitting upon the propitiation, huh? Now, through these three were designated three things which were in that, here, what? Age, it says, huh? Okay. To it, God, who is above all things, and incomprehensible to every, what? Creature, huh? And in account of this, no likeness was laid down there to represent his, what? Invisibility. But there was laid down a certain figure of his, what? Seat, right? Because the creature is comprehensible, which is subject to God as a seat to the one, what? Sitting, huh? There were also in that higher, what? Age. The spiritual substances which are called the angels, huh? And these were signified through two, what? Cherubim. Mutually regarding each other. To designating the concord of them to each other. According to that of Job 25, who makes concord in the, what? Sublime ones. And in account of this, there was not just one only cherubim, that there might be designated the multitude of these celestial spirits, huh? Which Dionysius says is beyond all number, right? And they excluded the worship of those things from which, what? There was commanded that they only, what? Worship the one, what? God, huh? To both turn towards them. Thus also, in that understandable age, the reasons of all things which are perfected in this world are in some way contained, right? Just as the reasons of the effects are included in their causes and the reasons of artificial things in the artist. And this is signified through the ark in which is represented through the three things which are contained there, three things which are most potent in human things. Okay, we're in question 102, article 4, the plied odd 6 on the 6th objection. What are these three things? Potissima in human affairs. To wit, wisdom, right? Which is represented by the tables of the testament, huh? The power of the regime which is represented by the rod of, what? Aaron. And life which is represented by the manna which was the sustainer of life, huh? Or, through these three things are signified three attributes of God. To wit, wisdom in the tables, huh? That's in the commands, huh? Power in the, what? And goodness in the manna, right? Now, you've probably seen how those three are sometimes, what? Appropriated to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, huh? So which is appropriated to the Father? Yeah. And to the Son? Yeah. And to the Holy Spirit? Yeah. Because he proceeds by way of love, right? This object is goodness, huh? The way the Son proceeds is the word of the Father. Therefore, it is wisdom. But a power is what defined as the beginning of doing something, huh? The source of doing something. He's the beginning of the whole trinity, so he's appropriated power. It doesn't mean that one of these belongs more to one than another, but it's appropriated, right? You've heard about appropriation. And also because from the mercy of God it was given to people. And therefore, it is conserved in memory of the divine, what? Mercy, huh? And these three are also figured in the vision of Isaiah's, chapter 6. For we see the Lord sitting upon a, what? High throne, an elevated one, and the seraphim assisting, right? And the house being filled with the glory of God. Whence the seraphim said, And full is the whole earth of his, what? Glory. And thus the likenesses of the seraphim are not placed for worship, because it was prohibited by the first, what? Preset of the law. But in a sign of, what? Service, huh? In the exterior tabernacle, which signified... the present age there contained three things the altar of what incense which was directly against the ark right the table of the what proposition upon which the 12 breads were what placed which was put down on the what northern side i guess and the candelabra which is on the southern side huh remember that from australia right yeah it's part to australia the former president there of australia there has got a nice little article there in national review this year this uh last one the 60th anniversary which three seem to respond to the three things which are in the included or enclosed in the ark but the more manifestly right and represent them for the reasons of things for a more manifest demonstration are led in in the what they're in the divine mind and the angels that wise men might what be able to know them which is signified by the priests entering the what tabernacle in the candelabra is designating as in a sensible sign wisdom which is expressed by understandable words in the what tablets but through the altar of incense has signified the office of the priests of whom it belonged to whom it belonged to lead back the people to what god and this is also signified by the rod for in that altar is what incense done incense of good odor right through which it signified the sanctity of the people acceptable to god right now it's like when they dig up the body of the saint and instead of getting a bad smell they get what smell of flowers huh for it said in apocalypse 8 3 that through the fume of the aromatic spices and so on are signified the justifications huh the justice of the saints suitably the what priestly dignity is signified in the ark through the rod but in the exterior tabernacle by the altar of incense because the priest is a what mediator between god and the people right ruling the people through the divine power which the rod signifies and the fruit of their what regimen the sanctity of the people he offers to god as were in the altar of what incense huh and through the table signified the nourishment of life as to what mana but this is a more common and gross nourishment and that more sweet and subtle i'm going to give an exam on this and i hope you can remember remember all this huh got a very uh new priest there in the in the parish there and uh just ordained this summer as it was he gives very good sermons and so on huh but it kind of surprised me the other day that when he began he said uh after death he said a a taxi cab driver and a priest right that appeared before peter and uh they're both going to be let into heaven right huh but uh he talked to the uh taxi cab driver first and uh he um gave him a very nice you know staff you know to walk into heaven you know and walk around and he let the priest in too but he gave him a very you know a little wooden thing it wasn't much thing and uh he said and kind of dignity to peter you know how come you gave him the real nice stuff and me this he says uh i'm a priest he says and and he was just a taxi cab driver so what's going what's peter going to say right and peter said well we we give you uh your place he says on the basis of of uh effects right what you produced right now every time he drove he says people prayed he said when you give a sermon everybody fell asleep you know that's kind of good you know how he's going to get out of this what he's going to come up with you know kind of clever but one thing he does though he gives a very nice sermon you know and then at the end of the mass you know just he's going to say goodbye you know um he always recalls something from the sermon you know there's no idea from it you know that's really really very good uh i've never seen another priest do that exactly you know but it it's really you know my wife was just remarking about this morning you know he's just something to think about just as you're you're leaving right huh like you don't you don't just forget the the sermon you know but some you know uh fundamental point there you know he's just when does the kingdom of god come to you right he's talking about it come to even today it could come to you you know he's very good to say he's juan escador he's there from uh from columbia i guess originally do you know do you read him i didn't know but i know the western diocese doesn't work yeah yeah here's our assumption there when they had the uh the bishop there you know for the uh discussion of assisted suicide you know yeah okay suitably the candelabra is placed on the southern side but the table on the what northern side because the southern part is the right side of the world and the uh left the the the northern the left as is said in the second book of the channel of mundo well that's the second book in natural philosophy huh so we'll leave you to your study of that once in a while you kind of get into the the child of mundo you know give a course on it now usually the first course he gave was to everybody the freshman it was the either first or second book of the physics and then the second course he gave to one of the later books you know so if you're there for a number of years you get most of the the physics but not everything but as he said he always saw something new every time he taught it the temporal nourishment to the what left sinistrum on the sinister side according to that of proverbs 3 in the sinistra on the left side divitia which is in glory for the such sacrodotal power is in the middle between temporal and what spiritual wisdom because to him right both spiritual wisdom and temples are dispensed now it's possible also for these another reason to be assigned magis literalis more literal in the ark are contained the tables of the law to take away forgetfulness of the law whence it is said in exodus 24 i will give you two tables stone tables right and the law and the commandments which i have written down that you might teach them to the sons of what israel this must be where he got the start of this it's not written in the law or stone somebody will say you know it's something about you know but if it's written in stone i mean then then you know it's pretty pretty what important right it's not not to be uh to be erased the rod of aaron is laid down there to repress the this you of the people about the, what, priesthood of, what, Aaron. Whence it is said in Numbers chapter 17. Look at the, what, rod of Aaron in the tabernacle of testimony. One might observe it in the sign of the, what, rebellion, I guess, the rebellious sons of Israel. They were always rebelling or something. The manna was conserved in the ark to commemorate the benefit that God gave to the sons of Israel in the desert, right? Whence it is said in Exodus 16. What's the word gomor, huh? What do you got there in English there? They just leave it at that one. Yeah. And what one might keep for future generations, right, huh, that they know the breads which I fed you in the, what, solitude, huh? The candelabra was instituted for the, what, honoring of the tabernacle, for it pertains to the magnificence of a house that would be well lit, huh? That's how sometimes in the big cathedrals, you know, they're dark, and then there's some of these, isn't they going to have the ceremony, and they, you know, flood the thing with light, huh? And the candelabra had seven, what, branches, yeah, as Joseph said, right, huh? To signifying the seven planets, huh? Well, later on he'll give a different explanation of the seven there, which would be the, we'll see, but, because we think there's more than seven planets now, right? Is it seven because seven are visible in the right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but which the whole world is what illuminated, right, huh? They say the last planets, you know, they, they guessed that they were there before they saw them, because their mathematics got so exact that the known planets were not exactly where they should be, if that's all they were. They must be influenced by planets we don't know, and their math was so exact they could actually say where they thought the planets would be, and that's where they consecrated the telescopes, and sure enough, it's kind of an amazing, amazing thing to see that, the accuracy of that. I was reading an account there, you know, of the invention of the A-bomb, you know, huh? And kind of a thing talking about, it's called the General and the Genius, right? The General was Grove, right, who was in charge of the whole thing, and then the genius is Oppenheimer, you know, but it's kind of funny to get the characters of these people, you know. The General, he delighted the fact that people were actually afraid of him, right? It was, he's severe, you know, huh? I mean, just running things, and you needed it, huh? They did it in about two or three years, you know, and kind of an amazing thing, yeah. That was incredible. Yeah, and of course, when they blew it up, when they set it off, finally, the big test there, and they wanted to be able to tell Truman, right, who was at Potsdam, I guess, with Stalin, you know, about this new bomb. It's a boy. Yeah, and of course, Stalin knew about it already, because he had three spies there already. Oh, he smiled. It's kind of funny to Truman, you know, oh, he got those bombers. Oh, my dear, sweetie. Okay. And therefore, he lays down, or places the candelabra on the southern side. From that side is the, what, path of the planets. The altar of the incense was constituted that it might be, what, ujitir, the fume of good odor, right, huh? Both in account of the veneration of the tabernacle, but also in remedy of the, what, fetish smell, right, huh? It happened from the effusion of blood and the occasion of animals, huh? As long as they talk about this, and they talk about the Eucharist, and how you have a very simple, you know, food, you know, well, you're telling all these animals, huh? The smell would, you'd need some kind of a thing to overcome that smell, you know? Not just a spray can, but, I mean, really, really, I didn't have spray cans anyway, then, but, because fetid things are, what, despised as vile, right, huh? But those things which are of a good odor, men appreciate more, right? The table was added to signifying that the priests serving the temple ought to have, what, food from the temple, right? Whence the twelve loaves placed upon the table were in memory of the twelve tribes. It was only a visit for the priests to eat, as he's had in Matthew 12. I guess that's one where Christ tells about what David did, right, huh? One time he went and ate them, right, huh, with his men, huh? That's during Matthew 12. But the table was not placed directly in the middle before the propitiation to exclude the right of idolatry, huh? For the Gentiles in the, what, sacred times of the moon placed the table before the idol of the moon, huh? Whence it is said in Jeremiah 7. The woman, what, anointed the fat, right? That they might make things pleasant to the queen of heaven. I guess the queen of heaven is the moon, huh? There's a number of names here in theology, Diana and so on, right? Okay. In the atrium that was outside the tabernacle was contained the altar of holocausts, in which was offered to God the sacrifices of those things which were possessed or from those things which were possessed by the people. And therefore, in the atrium, the people were able to be, huh? Priests who are only in the inner courts, huh? Who offered these things to God through the hands of the priests. But at the interior altar, in which the devotion and holiness of the people of God was offered, no one could go in except the, what, priests, to whom it was or belonged to offer to God the people. But this altar outside the tabernacle, constituted in the atrium, was to remove the cult of idolatry, huh? For the Gentiles below the temples constituted altars to, what, sacrifice to their idols, huh? Now, that is enough, huh? A figurative reason of all these things can be assigned from the relation of the tabernacle to Christ, who is figured there. It should be considered that to design the imperfection of the legal figures, diverse figures were instituted in the temple to signify Christ. For he is signified through the, what, propitiation, huh? Because he is a propitiation for our sins, as is said in the, I guess that's the first epistle of John, right? Chapter 2. And suitably, the propitiation was carried by the cherubim, because about him it is written, there were, what, angels of God there, right? It says, had in Hebrew 1. Also, he signified through the ark, because the ark was constructed of, what, the woods, right? So the body of Christ was what constituted for most pure members. It was also what covered with gold, I guess, huh? Because Christ was full of wisdom and charity, which is signified by gold, huh? So you got that now? Wisdom and charity are signified by gold, huh? Gold standard, huh? We still use that term, the gold standard, even if you're not talking about gold, don't we? Gold standard, huh? Inside the ark was a, what, golden yearn? That is, what, a holy, what, soul, having mana? That is all the fullness of, what, divinity, huh? There was in the ark, a rod, that is, the priestly power, because he, that means Christ, huh? Was made a sacerdos in aeternum, that's in the Psalms, right? There was, I guess, too. There was in the ark, a rod, yeah, because he was made a priest in aeternum. There was also there tables of the testament to designate that Christ is the giver.