Apothecary

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• A compounder of drugsExodus 30:25Exodus 30:35Exodus 37:292 Chronicles 16:14Nehemiah 3:8
• Ointment ofEcclesiastes 10:1

The passages, in Bible order (6)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 30:25

   Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 30:252 voices

   “After the art of the apothecary - The original, רקח rokeach, signifies a compounder or confectioner; any person who compounds drugs, aromatics, etc.

   “Take thou also . . . principal spices, &c.--Oil is frequently mentioned in Scripture as an emblem of sanctification, and anointing with it a means of designating objects as well as persons to the service of God.

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2. Exodus 30:35

   and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 30:352 voices

   “This incense was placed within the sanctuary, to be at hand when the priest required to burn on the altar. The art of compounding unguents and perfumes was well known in Egypt, where sweet-scented spices were extensively used not only in common life, but in the ritual of the temples.

   “And thou shalt make it a perfume,....

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3. Exodus 37:29

   He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 37:292 voices

   “He made the holy anointing oil - See this and the perfume, and the materials out of which they were made, described at large in the notes on Exo 30:23-25 and Exo 30:34-38. As this chapter also is a repetition of what has been mentioned in preceding chapters, the reader is desired to refer to them.

   “Consider these three together, and they represent the glory of a holy god, the sincerity of a holy heart, and the communion that is between them, in and by a Mediator. It is the glory of a holy god that he dwells between the cherubim; that is, is continually attended and adored by the blessed angels, whose swiftness was signified by their faces being one towards another.

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4. 2 Chronicles 16:14

   And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 16:142 voices

   “And they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had made for himself in the city of David,....

   “And laid him in the bed - It is very likely that the body of Asa was burnt; that the bed spoken of here was a funeral pyre, on which much spices and odoriferous woods had been placed; and then they set fire to the whole and consumed the body with the aromatics. Some think the body was not burned, but the aromatics only, in honor of the king. How the ancients treated the bodies of the illustrious dead we learn from Virgil, in the funeral rites paid to Misenus.

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5. Nehemiah 3:8

   Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

   ›Commentary on Nehemiah 3:82 voices

   “Fortified - It is not said, they repaired, but they fortified it, either because this part of the wall was less demolished than the other, and therefore they needed not to repair it, but only to make it stronger: or, to note their extraordinary care and diligence, that they would not only repair it, but make it stronger than ever.

   “And they left Jerusalem, etc. The wall of the broad street in Jerusalem is the firmness and fortification of perfect love in the hearts of the elect, to which its teachers reach by building, when progressing in works of charity, they can say to their …

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6. Ecclesiastes 10:1

   As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

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   “So the higher a man's religious character is, the more hurt is caused by a sinful folly in him. Bad savor is endurable in oil, but not in what professes to be, and is compounded by the perfumer ("apothecary") for, fragrance. "Flies" answer to "a little folly" (sin), appropriately, being small (1Co 5:6); also, "Beelzebub" means prince of flies.

   “Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour,....

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