Exodus 38:21-31 - Homilies By J. Orr

The enumeration of the metals used.

This served a useful purpose—

1 . As an account rendered to the people of what had been done with their gifts.

2 . As gratifying a very laudable wish of the contributors to know how much the sum-total of their contributions amounted to.

3 . As giving a just idea of the splendour and costliness of the building.

4 . As a testimony to the liberality, willingness, and unstinting self-sacrifice of all classes in the congregation.

5 . As specially indicating the destination of the atonement-money—the making of the "sockets" on which the tabernacle was reared ( Exodus 38:27 ).

6 . As a lesson of exactitude in church finance. A church is not at liberty to deal in a slovenly manner with its receipts and disbursements. Careful accounts should be kept and published. This