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Exod 36:27

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Exod 36:27 · Douay-Rheims
“But against the west, to wit, at that side of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he made six boards,”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“And since the reprobate perish in eternity while the righteous are reigning with the Lord, rightly is it said further on that this side of the tabernacle looks to the sea. Now this signifies the Red Sea, in which Pharaoh with his host was drowned and from which Israel, having been saved by the Lord, went up to Mt. Sinai where they made the tabernacle. Therefore the western side of the tabernacle looks back to the sea when after the perfection of good works the holy church is crowned in Christ and gazes freely upon the failings or the punishments of the impious, which [Christ] has decreed by his own command.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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