Mirror, mirror...
I noticed this yesterday:
Exodus 38:8
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
A commentary pointed out that the lookingglasses were polished brass.
We can infer or assume all kinds of things about what this means and how godly and devoted these women were that they would give up such an essential item.
But we can also just plainly take it as it is.
These were the women assembled by the door of the tabernacle. They gave their lookingglasses up. Some possible scenarios:
1. They were unnecessary things, maybe picked up in Egypt, and so they gave them up. They never bothered using them.
2. They were things that they found useful, but they gave them up out of zeal for this work.
It is just something interesting recorded about an unnamed and relatively small group of women.
Exodus 38:8
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
A commentary pointed out that the lookingglasses were polished brass.
We can infer or assume all kinds of things about what this means and how godly and devoted these women were that they would give up such an essential item.
But we can also just plainly take it as it is.
These were the women assembled by the door of the tabernacle. They gave their lookingglasses up. Some possible scenarios:
1. They were unnecessary things, maybe picked up in Egypt, and so they gave them up. They never bothered using them.
2. They were things that they found useful, but they gave them up out of zeal for this work.
It is just something interesting recorded about an unnamed and relatively small group of women.
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